Feature: custom pointer types

[lundmark]

I think it would be really nice if you could do this in your type declaration:

{ "name" : "blah", "type" : "struct mystruct*[5]" }

This means that the struct can hold a list of pointers so that you don't have to do void*'s and can keep type safety somewhat reasonable.

[wc-duck]

Agreed... Same goes for arrays of arrays. A temporary workaround is creating a strict holding onli the pointer, not nice but that should work right now.

[wc-duck]

Does closing issue #28 solve this for you?

[lundmark]

I'm not sure what #28 does :P So I don't know.

Does it allow you to have an array of pointers of types that are not in the DL-library?

[wc-duck]

Nope... Only types defined in dl. I really do not know how to handle types not known by DL?

[lundmark]

Just as external pointers, which basically means not really handling them at all. I just want to be able to declare pointers to types not inside dl, instead of having to use void*.

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Nope... Only types defined in dl. I really do not know how to handle types not known by DL?

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[wc-duck]

But what would happen if you try to pack a struct with such a ptr? The only valid solution would be to force them to be null since dl can't pack something it do not know about. And how do you even void-declare them today? As far as I know that isn't possible?

[lundmark]

Force them to null is fine. It's basically just runtime data. It was a long time ago I checked on it, if you want the exact useage I'd have to check it up and get back to you.

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But what would happen if you try to pack a struct with such a ptr? The only valid solution would be to force them to be null since dl can't pack something it do not know about. And how do you even void-declare them today? As far as I know that isn't possible?

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[wc-duck]

If you just want placeholders I don't see why you can't keep that in a separate struct at the side and I don't think dl is the proper place to solve the issue. You might be able to convince me by a usecase, but I'm doubtful.

[lundmark]

Hmm maybe it was just being able to have a variable to be a list of pointers of a type that is supported by dl?

[wc-duck]

That should be supported since last night :)

[lundmark]

Awesome! Good job! I'll close the issue then 👯