Re: Storing external data in PMCs

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 05:20  pm, Melvin Smith wrote:

> Apologies for the formatting of these replies, I'm at work with Lotus 
> Notes.
>
> PNI (Parrot Native Interface) is for writing native extensions in C.
> So, what I meant is you can write a method for stashing a raw pointer 
> with
> the API today (probably using char *). I'm not sure if it is your 
> preferred method,
> and I understand your wariness of bytecode in this case. I was 1/2 
> asleep
> this morning on IRC when I suggested it, not understanding the case
> you were dealing with.
>
> You can see samples that Dan has played with such as ncurses somewhere
> in the examples area. (I'm still not saying you don't need API added 
> to extend.h
> though, but I'd have to be very clear on what you are asking for...)
>
> -Melvin
>

I just want to be able to say

Parrot_PMC_attach_data(Parrot, PMC, *void);

so the PMC code can get to it

Arthur