Re: Wrapping variable argument functions

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> 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
In both cases, they seem to call a ..._set_valist() related function do 
I use these?

-Jose