Re: [Vala] embedding c code snippet in vala source.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Yu,

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:27 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> I made a patch that allows embedding c code snippet in vala source.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548897
>
> This is quite primitive and more has to be done, especially to translate
> the vala variable names to cnames.
>
> I would like to analogue this with embedding asm code in c. :-)

C doesn't support inline assembly code. Some C compilers support inline
assembly but that's a compiler-specific extension to the C language.

I will certainly not add support for inline C code to the Vala language.
It's of course possible to support it using backend-specific attributes
as you did in your patch. I don't think that this is sensible for
embedding C code into your Vala application, though. Using the `extern'
modifier is a better way to do this.

> Another direction of this patch is to allow small wrapping code in
> the .vapi declarations (which might ease the vapi authors's life)

This is the only place where I might consider it useful. However, so far
I'm not convinced that it really helps, see my other response.

Jürg