HI,
> On 21 Sep 2019, at 13:18, eftomi <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> I have a couple of questions regarding FFI:
>
> - If you want to create a new FFIExternalType subclass, which are the
> necessary hooks that should be implemented - like #externalType,
> #externalTypeSize … on the class side and #basicHandle:at:,
> #basicHandle:at:put:, #stackValueParameterClass, etc. on the instance side?
Yes, but in general you do not need to implement your type, you can derive what you need from the ones existing.
Why you need to do it?
>
> - Is there anything else that should be done besides hooks - for instance
> another "entries" into FFIConstants class>>#initializeTypeConstants or even
> ExternalType>>#initializeAtomicTypes ?
No.
>
> - About naming standards: the ExternalData class has some methods that
> "grab" strings from the heap, like ExternalData>>#fromCString and
> ExternalData>>#readStringUTF8 - these two methods do the heavy work, however
> the method ExternalData>>#readString more or less just refers to
> ExternalData>>#fromCString. Is there any difference between "from..." and
> "read…"?
At the begining, there was fromCString.
Then someone else added readStringUTF8.
Then I added readString because I like coherence :)
So readStrring is equivalent to fromCString, but I can imagine a better future where we have just one and it will be readString :P
Esteban
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