Re: alien attacks SDL

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Fabio Mascarenhas
Date: 9/4/2008 1:16 PM
> Alas, using struct.unpack is a temporary bandaid while I do not
> implement an struct abstraction on top of the buffers (like array).
> The support for figuring out offsets from a description of the struct
> is already in core.c, in the form of alien.sizeof and alien.align, so
> it can be implemented as a Lua addon (just like arrays).
>   
Although not complete enough for my needs, I liked the approach 
CInvoke's Lua module took for structure definition.  Ultimately, I think 
struct.unpack will still be needed for special cases, but your struct 
abstraction will work most of the time.  (It occurs to me now that 
CInvoke didn't handle structures with arrays like 'char name[256]'.)

Josh