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Re: Phix: c-struct

• Posted by petelomax 2 weeks ago
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Oh dear. That works fine in 0.8.2 but is broken in 1.0.1 and everything after...
Obviously no-one, including myself, has used c-structs in the last five years, so I'm inclined to just drop 'em.
Anyway, a c-struct was only ever meant to be a thin wrapper to the following, which still works fine.

include cffi.e 
constant idRECT = define_struct("""  

typedef struct _RECT {  
  LONG left;  
  LONG top;  
  LONG right;  
  LONG bottom;  
} RECT, *PRECT;""") 
 
-- replaces 'q', could be named that: 
atom pRECT = allocate_struct(idRECT) 
-- The above is still equivalent to allocate, but with size auto-calculated, 
-- and the following are still equivalent to poke(), with offset&size "". 
set_struct_field(idRECT,pRECT,"left",10) 
set_struct_field(idRECT,pRECT,"top",10) 
set_struct_field(idRECT,pRECT,"right",350) 
set_struct_field(idRECT,pRECT,"bottom",200) 

So unless anyone has any serious objections, I'm just going to delete all references to c-struct in the docs,
and clean up builtins/structs.e and pmain.e a bit, and leave it at that. You good with that?