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Forum => newLISP in the real world => Topic started by: TedWalther on August 07, 2015, 02:26:03 PM
I wanted to make a text mode app with newlisp. I start to make an ncurses module so I can use ncurses. Right away I find this function has a variable number of arguments. What is the right way to import and use these?
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int printw(const char *fmt, ...);
int wprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, ...);
int mvprintw(int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
int mvwprintw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const char *fmt, ...);
int vwprintw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);
int vw_printw(WINDOW *win, const char *fmt, va_list varglist);
My first guess failed:
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(import LIB_NCURSES "printw" "int" "void*")
(printw "abc %d %d %d" 1 2 3)
=> ERR: mismatch in number of arguments
How to do variadic functions using libffi? Is it possible? If this is a feature to be added, could we have "..." to specify variadic function?
And yes, it did work with the old cdecl style of import. Then I lose the benefit of type checking. Oh well.