[Cffi-devel] Fw: Casting variables and functions

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 08:14 -0700, Joeish W wrote:
> I was just wondering why cffi doesn't do automatic conversions.  Since
> casting is used so much in c I  think it would do automatic
> conversions...Do experts in CFFI normally use this approach,  do they
> cast on the Lisp side or use another approach..I'd like to start
> learning the best way to do things

There is no other approach to use. You must always pass the right type
to CFFI, and do type coercions beforehand either explicitly or
implicitly through custom types.

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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