Package: cffi

Generic Function foreign-type-size

Lambda List

foreign-type-size (foreign-type)

Arguments

type -- A foreign type.
size -- An integer.

Details

The function foreign-type-size return the size of type in bytes. This includes any padding within and following the in-memory representation as needed to create an array of type objects.

Examples

  (defcstruct foo
    (a :double)
    (c :char))


  CFFI> (foreign-type-size :double)
  => 8
  CFFI> (foreign-type-size :char)
  => 1
  CFFI> (foreign-type-size 'foo)
  => 16
 

See also

foreign-type-alignment