Package: cffi

Macro with-foreign-slots

Lambda List

with-foreign-slots ((vars ptr type) &body body)

Arguments

vars -- A list of symbols.
ptr -- A foreign pointer to a structure.
type -- A structure type.
body -- A list of forms to be executed.

Details

The with-foreign-slots macro creates local symbol macros for each var in vars to reference foreign slots in ptr of type. It is similar to Common Lisp's with-slots macro.

Examples

  (defcstruct tm
    (sec :int)
    (min :int)
    (hour :int)
    (mday :int)
    (mon  :int)
    (year :int)
    (wday :int)
    (yday :int)
    (isdst  :boolean)
    (zone   :string)
    (gmtoff :long))

CFFI> (with-foreign-object (time :int) (setf (mem-ref time :int) (foreign-funcall "time" :pointer (null-pointer) :int)) (foreign-funcall "gmtime" :pointer time tm)) => #<A Mac Pointer #x102A30> CFFI> (with-foreign-slots ((sec min hour mday mon year) * tm) (format nil "~A:~A:~A, ~A/~A/~A" hour min sec (+ 1900 year) mon mday)) => "7:22:47, 2005/8/2"
 

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