[cffi-devel] Could use a little help writing a defmacro for a defcfun and defun combo

[Joeish W]

Thanks alot Martin ...that worked like a charm! =)




On Friday, October 25, 2013 4:20 AM, Martin Simmons <martin at lispworks.com> wrote:
 
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT), Joeish W said:
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>> here is the defcfun and deffun combo
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>> ;; void cvSplit(const CvArr* src, CvArr* dst0, CvArr* dst1, CvArr* dst2, CvArr* dst3) 
>> ;; Note: I had to use "CV-MERGE" instead of "MERGE" for the Common Lisp name of CV-MERGE so I named this  
>> ;; function CV-SPLIT so they would match. 
>> (cffi:defcfun ("cvSplit" %split) :void 
>>   (src cv-arr) 
>>   (dest-0 cv-arr) 
>>   (dest-1 cv-arr) 
>>   (dest-2 cv-arr) 
>>   (dest-3 cv-arr)) 
>>  
>> (defun cv-split (src dest-0 &optional (dest-1 (cffi:null-pointer)) (dest-2 (cffi:null-pointer)) (dest-3 (cffi:null-pointer))) 
>>   "Divides a multi-channel array into several single-channel arrays." 
>>   (%split src dest-0 dest-1 dest-2 dest-3)) 
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>> 
>> it works as expected ...no errors at all
>> 
>> my attempt at a macro(new to macros) below works in one piece of code when the defun it is in is evaluated at the repl then ran at the repl
>> 
>> 
>> ;; #define cvCvtPixToPlane cvSplit 
>> (defmacro cvt-pix-to-plane (src dest-0 &optional (dest-1 (cffi:null-pointer))  
>>                 (dest-2 (cffi:null-pointer)) (dest-3 (cffi:null-pointer))) 
>>   "Macro for CV-SPLIT" 
>>          `(cv-split ,src ,dest-0 ,dest-1 ,dest-2 ,dest-3))
>> 
>> but in the same code when used the exact same way    inside emacs (using slime/sbcl on ubuntu saucy)  when it is placed inside a newly opened file (.lisp) or even my well used test.lisp file  and ran with slime-compile-and-load-file i get
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>>   error: 
>>     Objects of type SB-SYS:SYSTEM-AREA-POINTER can't be dumped into fasl files.
>>     --> CL-OPENCV::CV-SPLIT 
>>     ==>
>>       #.(SB-SYS:INT-SAP #X00000000)
>> 
>> can you help me figure out the issue and write macros with null-pointers correctly
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>This is a common gotcha with &optional/&key in macros: the default value is
>evaluated during macroexpansion, so in general it should be a form.
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>I.e. you need `(cffi:null-pointer) instead of (cffi:null-pointer).
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>__Martin
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