Re: [Gm2] Interfacing to C -- How do we map size_t to Modula-2?

[Gaius Mulley]

Benjamin Kowarsch <address@hidden> writes:

>     On Jul 14, 2017, at 01:50, Benjamin Kowarsch <address@hidden>
>     wrote:
>     
>     Trouble is that I cannot possibly call confstr() from within a
>     definition module in Modula-2.
>     
>     GM2 will have to do the work. It needs to either provide a SIZET
>     type in module SYSTEM that always matches size_t for the current
>     target, or ...
>     
>
> I have been reading the XDS Modula-2 docs and ... surprise, surprise .
> ..
>
> XDS's SYSTEM module does in fact export a type size_t.
>
> I think GM2 should follow that example.
>
> https://www.excelsior-usa.com/doc/xds/xc.html
>
> IMPORT SYSTEM;
>
> PROCEDURE strlen(s: ARRAY OF CHAR): SYSTEM.size_t;
>
> This is the safest way to do it.

Hi Benjamin and John,

thanks for the email.  Yes sure, this sounds very sensible - pretty easy
to implement as well.  I'll add it to SYSTEM.def,

regards,
Gaius