[ksh93-integration-discuss] Mapping C data structures to ksh93 nested variables... / was: Re: [perf-discuss] [observability-discuss] Project proposal: CPUfs

[Roland Mainz]

"Richard L. Hamilton" wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Hence, I totally agree with...
[snip]
> >From my point of view, function-call-like APIs that deal with binary
> data, preferably available in both C and perl (the latter for those for
> whom everything has to be some sort of script), are preferable to
> new _text_ pseudo files that then need to be parsed from text back to
> something machine readable, which for particularly _human_ readable
> formats, may not be both efficient and unambiguous.
> (along those lines, it would be handy if there were a ksh93 extension
> that could map C data structures to ksh93 nested variables (using
> the API for the memory model of the ksh93 binary), not unlike what can
> be done for perl like that)

Does "perl" have any special support for mapping C structures to
variables (e.g. some kind of compiler/script - "in" C structure type,
"out" perl code) ? ksh93 has an API which allows shell variables to use
native C variables&&datatypes as storage... but I am not sure whether
this is what you mean...

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Bye,
Roland

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