Re: [Vala] Writing Bindings for Legacy C Libraries

[Andre Masella <andre masella name>]

On 29 September 2013 01:45, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:

> Awesome! That was really a missing part of the docs. Thanks for your work,
> you have written so much and so good.

Thanks. I'm happy to contribute.


> A couple of things:
> The copy_function shouldn't be of any uses for classes (compact and not),
> if I'm not wrong.

Done.


> Vala does support multidimensional arrays very well: int[,] foo = new
> int[3,4];
> What vala does not support is stacked arrays.

Clarified. → Vala does not really do C-style stacked arrays (a.k.a. ragged
multi-dimensional arrays), so binding them is nigh impossible without extra
C code.


> Also did you link this page from some other wiki pages? Which ones?

I put a link in the Vala/UpstreamGuide#Writing_By_Hand and Vala/Bindings,
next to the Upstream Guide link.
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