Re: :pointer-self and LispWorks

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Edi Weitz wrote:
> Yes, but the forward reference was just a workaround (it also didn't
> work with CMUCL). With the patch I don't think we don't need to care.

Agreed.

> Have you had a chance to look into the "pointer coercion" issue I
> asked about?

Just sent e-mail. In general, UFFI doesn't have a concept of coercing
pointers. But, since Alllegro requires type information passed to it,
that type info is in most UFFI calls.

deref-array, for example, can coerce the type for lispworks as
mentioned. However, for CMUCL, that requires some casting as you your
example shows. It's not a great idea to make every call to deref-array
cast for cmucl as some calls may not require casting.

It's probably reasonable to add a cast-pointer macro to UFFI. Feel
free to look more at this. Patches gladly accepted.

Kevin

Kevin Rosenberg
kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]

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