[cffi-devel] Re: Need foreign string method for translate-into-foreign-memory?

[Luís Oliveira]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Liam Healy <lnp at healy.washington.dc.us> wrote:
> Indeed, I first approached it this way. But the length needs to be
> calculated somewhere, and making it here has the benefit of preserving
> the arglist of translate-into-foreign-memory which is parallel to
> translate-to-foreign by design. If you think this works, I will commit
> it.

Looking at the actual problem we're trying to solve, I think we want
to specialise expand-to-foreign-dyn-indirect rather than
translate-into-foreign-memory. Does that make sense?

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Luís Oliveira
http://kerno.org/~luis/