The attached patch to vala 0.3.5 allows vala to emit naked type symbols as arguments to ellipses functions. (The ellipses is really a red-herring, but it is currently the favoured way to pass non-type-checked arguments to library macros which vala is wrapping as functions - maybe some work could be done on "void" here, or "any" [like python] for un-type-checked arguments)
This function is useful when a macro wants the C type passing, generally for stringifying or casting; I particularly need it to make use of this Samba4 talloc library macro: #define talloc_zero(ctx, type) (type *)_talloc_zero(ctx, sizeof(type), #type) which is a pretty darn useful macro, wrapped with this vapi: [CCode (sentinel="")] public void* zero(void* mem_ctx, ...); NOTE: only one of the fragment for gobject/valaccodeinvocationexpressionbinding.vala and gobject/valaccodegenerator.vala is needed. valaccodeinvocationexpressionbinding has the most specific patch only covering the ellipses case in method invocation generation, valaccodegenerator has a more general case and triggers quite often and so for all I know has some broader side effects. Comments? Sam _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list