Re: Using By-Value Compound Getters (Re: gtk_widget_get_allocation)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/21/2009 04:11 PM, Kalyanov Dmitry wrote:
> I think that using pass-by-value struct will bring more headache for language
> bindings developers, because this complicates ABI and not every language's
> foreign function interface supports passing structs by value. (I think that
> passing structs by value is not part of C language, but of C++ (or am I
> wrong?),

I think you are wrong.

behdad


> so it is problematic to support)
> I would support having both kinds of accessors: "simple" ones (option "a") and
> convenient for C (option "b"). Just the same as with other kinds of functions,
> e.g., g_object_get and g_object_get_property. One part of interface for
> convenience of C programming, one part for convenience of other languages.