Re: [Vala] [RFC, PATCH] add async keyword to vapigen

[Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:17:44 +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 22:21:36 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > > Or would it be better to make the parser recognize asynchronous
> > > functions that don't end in _async?
> >
> > An async function can be recognized by having a GAsyncReadyCallback argument
> > next to last and void * last (that's what vala expects from an async
> > function).  So it could probably be detected only by that (and not look at
> > "_async" suffix at all except to strip it).
>
> How can I detect a void pointer correctly? Right now I'm just using
> (parse_param(param) is PointerType), which so far seems to work
> correctly (on gio-2.0.vapi).

I think if the GAsyncCallback is detected exactly, the pointer type for
target won't be anything else, so this would be good enough.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>