Re: [Vala] sentinel patch

["Jared Moore" <jaredm gmx com>]

Hi Sam,

If you don't want this patch to be forgotten then you're better off
filing a new enhancement bug on bugzilla and attaching the patch
there.

Cheers,
Jared

2008/8/18 Sam Liddicott <sam liddicott com>:
> This updated fact takes nto account that property setters return weak
> strings.
>
>
>
> This patch allows sentinels to be specified on a class and apply to all
> varargs methods of that class and subclasses.
>
> it also allows an empty string to be specified
> [CCode (sentinel="")]
>
> which results in no sentinel argument being emitted.
>
> I find it useful so I can declare access to macro's of a c library
> without vala worrying about the arguments matching up; as traditionally
> macros can be very liberal about arguments.
>
> to use Samba's DLIST_ADD, I can use DLIST.ADD declared below:
>
>    [Compact]
>    [CCode (cprefix="DLIST_")]
>    [CCode (sentinel="")]
>    class DLIST {
>        public static void REMOVE(...);
>        public static void ADD(...);
>    }
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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