On Oct 23, 2005, at 17:08, Nick Glencross (via RT) wrote:
Guys, call_list.txt lists 'T' and 'L' as being prototypes for passing arrays to nci functions, but no implementation exists in build_nativecall.pl. This patch provides an implementation, as well as new tests.
I don't think that this is a good idea. There are way too many different array types. The code inside *ManagedStruct already deals with arrays of all standard types. See e.g. runtime/parrot/library/libpcre.imc, which works fine without new signatures.
There is a second problem with this approach: permutation. All of these signature chars might be combined to create arbitrary function signatures. nci.c is already too big.
leo
