Re: Importing C structs?

[chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 
>   This is wrong.  The C has
> 
> 
>>  union {
>>    int i[8];
>>    char s[JMSG_STR_PARM_MAX];
>>  } msg_parm;
> 
>   which means msg_parm is JMSG_STR_PARM_MAX number of bytes, interpretable
> sometimes as a char array and sometimes as an int array followed by
> filler.  msg_parm is never an address.  To match the C, I suggest making
> msg_parm an interfaces.c.char_array (the larger of the two objects),
> and then doing an unchecked_conversion on those (relatively rare)
> occasions when you need to treat it as an array of int's.  

Yeah I knew that was wrong, I just didn't know what to map a union to 
and hadn't fixed it yet...  thanks for the example!


Thanks,
Chris