Re: eXene and openGL

Matthew Fluet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.sml.smlnj
Organization Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vesa Karvonen wrote:
> Quoting John Reppy <jhr-kRQskCh0V2e+fvpajLlQkQ-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org>:
>> My understanding from talking to Matthew Fluet is that nlffi on mlton  
>> does not support C structs.
> 
>>From http://mlton.org/MLNLFFI:
> 
>   "MLton's mlnlffigen does not currently support C
>   functions with struct or union arguments."
> 
> However, *pointers* to structs or unions do work and it is
> relatively rare for a C function to take struct or union
> arguments.  (I don't know whether SDL does.)

Correct: one may pass *pointers* to structs and unions with MLton's 
nlffi.  One may also allocate structs and unions and access field 
members of structs and unions.  It is only passing structs and unions as 
arguments that is unsupported.


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