Re: sizeof?

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Thu, 27 Jun 2002 04:40:00 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uffi.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:14:09AM +0000, Reini Urban wrote:
> Kevin Rosenberg schrieb:
> > The main design criteria for UFFI is that valid UFFI must work on all
> > supported platforms. Currently, ACL objects are represented by untyped
> 
> In cormanlisp it's trivial:
> (CT:SIZEOF <c-type-specifier>) => integer

Very nice!

Unfortunately, neither ACL or CMUCL support accessing the size of
a type. Requiring UFFI to support a common subset of FFI features
is certainly limiting.

-- 
Kevin Rosenberg
kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]