[Ecls-list] :CSTRING cannot be used anymore as FFI argument (sockets.lisp does not compile)

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 11:30 +0200, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> However, I'm not sure this is the right way to do it. Especially, the WITH-CSTRING
> is compiled into a funcall to WITH-CSTRING function; in other words, the WITH-CSTRING
> macro is not expanded before compilation. Juanjo?

The FFI package is not imported into the compiler package. Using
FFI::WITH-CSTRING seems to do the job.

> Side note: the change in :CSTRING argument handling forbids to use such an argument
> type for an output buffer of the C function (ex: gethostname function). So I have no
> idea is the sockets code is still functional, this needs to be checked.

Well, the code should work just as before: if the buffer you supply has
a fill pointer, it will be duplicated and the routine will get the
pointer to the copy.

Regards,

Juanjo