From axel at kth.se  Wed Jun 21 10:29:46 2006
From: axel at kth.se (Axel Jantsch)
Date: Wed Jun 21 10:21:19 2006
Subject: struct and tuples
Message-ID: <200606211429.k5LETnJF018733@bee.imit.kth.se>


Hi,

I thought I wanted something very simple but just cannot find out how to do it;
I assume I am overlooking something very obvious.

I want to hand over a tuple to a C function and get a tuple back:

  type myTup = (Bool, Int)
  myFun :: myTup -> myTup

So myFun should be implemented as a C function and I thought I use a struct to 
represent the tuple:

  typedef struct myStruct { int b; int x; };
  struct myStruct myCFun (struct myStruct);


I tried to use c2hs, looked at the documentation of ffi, c2hs, greenCard, hsc2h
s, 
the mail archives etc. but I somehow I cannot figure out how to do it.
Do I have to use Ptr? Do I have to make myTup an instance of Storable? Or?

I greatly appreciate any hint!
-- Axel

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