Re: [Chicken-users] typedef question

[Peter Keller]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:07:40AM +0200, Felix wrote:
> Peter Keller wrote:
> > Are these two equivalent?
> > 
> > (define-foreign-type size_t unsigned-int)
> > (define-foreign-type size_t "unsigned int")
> > 
> 
> Yep. But using the former will work properly
> when arguments of this type are passed directly
> as arguments to foreign functions (for example).
> The latter can only be used indirectly (i.e.
> when wrapped inside a `pointer'.

As an addendum, how come unsigned-long-long doesn't exist?  I'm wanting
to represent a dev_t under linux, and it is an unsigned long long type.
I'd write:
(define-foreign-type dev_t unsigned-long-long) 
if it did exist.

Thanks.

-pete