Hi,
I would like to know whether there is a good way to marshal the following
structure to C without using pointer arithmetic done by a programmer (as opposed
to a tool).
typedef struct{
double a[10];
double b[10];
double b[10];
} foo;
I don't need this functionality, but it would make Haskell -> C interfaces less
flaky. Basically, writing Haskell -> C interfaces seem to be a very unpopular
thing to do (as opposed to C -> Haskell interfaces).
For example, on Hackage (actually a checkout of a few months ago) there is only
one package using pokeArray and it is not pretty; it uses pointer arithmetic and
all other kinds of hard-coded addresses. If I change the order of the C fields
it will break, if I change the length of the buffer they use, it breaks. Just
look at it, and it will break ;)
If you are a bit creative, it is possible to make it work already, by using the
best features of both hsc2hs and c2hs, but it is hardly elegant.
I suppose the real solution would be to extend c2hs with an offsetof function
(for which patches already exist, btw), but it might be that I have missed some
other solution.
--
Best Regards,
Ron de Bruijn,
Developer, Gamr7
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