Re: [Vala] inline C

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 23:44 +0600, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
>       Hi,
>
> Take a look:
>       int main (void) {
>               int Cvariable;   
>               __asm__ ("movl Cvariable, %eax"); // Cvariable  
> contents > eax
>               __asm__ ("movl $Cvariable, %ebx"); // ebx ---> Cvariable
>       }
>
> These are Assembler inline instructions, which you can use in C.
>
> What do you think about having C inline in Vala? This looks quite  
> natural for Vala. Especially while Vala is quite unperfect (having 304  
> open bugs). This could ease implementing workarounds ;)

+1 it would be nicer for certain things to just use C rather than having
to write vapi e.g. the uuid.vapi I had to write for wizbit, meant more
code than just using C...

There would have to be some sanity wrapping though to make sure that the
C stuff would work properly with the vala stuff... 

BR,
 K