[squeak-dev] Re: FFI - structure pointer
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Apr 3 16:53:31 UTC 2010
On 4/3/2010 6:36 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Andreas, John, anybody,
>
> I need to find the address of a "function" (it is in fact a global structure pointer somewhere in memory) and pass it to another function.
>
> Suppose the structure is called Type and the function allocate_one(). I call the function something like
>
> allocateOne:type size:anInt
> <cdecl: SomeOtherStruct* 'allocate_one' ( Type* long )>
>
>
> but I am having an awful time getting the pointer to Type. Given that dlsym() will return a pointer to it, how can I represent that in Smalltalk? I have tried variations on
>
> "Indirectly call dlsym()"
> address := Library default getProcAddress:'name_of_global_struct'.
>
> "try to create Type* from the resulting address"
> type := Type fromHandle:address.
> type := Type fromHandle:address getHandle.
> type := ExternalData fromHandle:address type:Type externalType asPointerType.
>
> Something := Library default allocateOne:type size:2.
>
> and it either complains about bad arguments during the call or segment faults. Any ideas or similar examples?
The return type of getProcAddress: is likely wrong. It should be
declared to return void* which will cause it to return an ExternalData.
With an ExternalData your second variant "Type fromHandle: data
getHandle" will work.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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