Hi Romain, thanks for the feedback.
Romain Guillebert, 08.09.2011 06:18:
The Google Summer of Code has ended and I didn't give the current status to anyone yet (I was very busy with a report I had to write for my university). There is still work to do on the project (there was more work than I expected, especially because of semantic differences between Cython and ctypes) so I'll talk about what needs to be done (even if it does not sound good compared to talking about what has been done) from the most important to the least important in my opinion : - Pointer vs Array, Cython mixes the two while ctypes does not, this can probably be fixed by using arrays everywhere (if we can convert pointers into arrays)
Could you elaborate on this? Why can't you always use pointers?
- Take into account header files declared globally
"globally" as in ... ? And what exactly do you mean by "take header files into account"?
- Macros, this is probably the biggest part but it's doable, Cython has the types of the arguments and the return value so it's possible to generate a C function corresponding to a macro
Agreed. I think that's the only viable solution. Won't work for all macros, but at least for a rather large number of them.
- Pointer to functions
I take it this isn't implemented at all? Do you mean pointers to Cython cdef functions or also to external C defined functions?
Some of them are trivial, others just require good ideas and macros demands a big amount of work.
Really? Apart from generating the rather straight forward wrapper functions for them, what else needs to be done?
I'm still working on it and if someone wants to give a hand, I'll be happy to explain what I've done.
Happy to hear that. Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
