Re: XS help

On 20 Mar 2008, at 01:23, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I have a project to make the functions of a C program available to  
> Perl for unit testing purposes.  A lot of them use structs like so...


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I saw Tim's response. SWIG may well be the sensible route.

However, two more data points: I once wrote code which (from memory)  
parsed embedded debug information out of object files built with -g  
that turned C structure offsets into a pack/unpack spec.  
Unfortunately, having searched for the last 10 minutes I can't find  
that code - but, if my memory is working, it is possible.

Also there was a guy at YAPC::EU who was using Perl to test C by  
driving gdb using expect. His test harness would start his program,  
run it to a breakpoint, display some variables, verify their values  
and continue. It was, absolutely, a crazy scheme but also a technique  
that would never have occurred to me and which he seemed to be able to  
get working pretty well.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten