Re: Initial SCTP support for the upcoming 1.6.5 release

[Michael Tuexen]

Marius,

see my comments in-line.

Best regards
Michael

On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Michael Tuexen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > with the hints of Kevin I got my stuff working.
>
> Excellent, and please accept my apologies for doing such a louse job
> with the first attempt.  I forgot to include sctp.scm in the tarball,
> here it is for reference:
No problem. I did not figured out that I had to use load-extension.
I was playing with dynamic-args-call from
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-ref/Low-level-dynamic- 
linking.html#Low%20level%20dynamic%20linking
which was not that appropriate.
>     (define-module (net sctp))
>
>     (export sctp-recvmsg!
>             sctp-sendmsg
>
>             SOCK_SEQPACKET
>
>             IPPROTO_SCTP
>             IPPROTO_TCP
>             IPPROTO_UDP
>
>             MSG_UNORDERED
>             MSG_ADDR_OVER
>             MSG_ABORT
>             MSG_EOF
>             MSG_EOR
>             MSG_NOTIFICATION
>             MSG_PR_SCTP_TTL
>             MSG_PR_SCTP_BUF)
>
>     (load-extension "libguile-net-sctp" "net_sctp_init")
>
> > I need besides the static functions from socket.c the
> > SCM_SYSCALL stuff from libguile/_scm.h. This is file is
> > not installed. So is there a chance to move the SCM_SYSCALL
> > stuff from _scm.h to __scm.h? If not, I have to duplicate
> > the code, which is not a problem...
>
> Yes, please duplicate.  SCM_SYSCALL is more of an internal helper for
> boilerplate code that unrelated to Guile.
OK.
> > I have another question: How can I make the documentation included
> > in the SCM_DEFINE makro available from scheme.
>
> I don't think there is a good way yet.  Which is really bad, bad, bad,
> I know.  Leave your docstring in place and hope that you will soon be
> able to use it.
OK. I was not sure if I had to do something 'magic' in the sctp.scm
file.
>