Re: Wrapping variable argument functions

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:32 -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
>   
> > Hi.  I have a general question about gmmproc:  Can it wrap methods with 
> > variable arguments?  For example would  _WRAP_METHOD(void method(int 
> > field1, ...), c_function) work if the c_function accepts the same 
> > variable argument list as the method?  Thanks.
> >     
>
> No. These are generally convenience functions for C, which usually
> repeatedly call other functions that we do wrap. We don't generally
> want ... arguments in C++ because they are not at all type-safe.
>
>   
I'm looking at two functions in gstreamer (the GstCaps 
gst_caps_set_simple and the GstStructure gst_structure_set functions) 
that are giving me a bit of trouble.  They're meant to set a series of 
fields in the Caps and Structure.  What would I do in a case like this?  
Thanks.

-Jose