Re: SCM to C string

[Rob Browning]

Viktor Pavlenko <address@hidden> writes:

> I hurried with the reply... It _is_ described in the `Guile Reference
> Manual' by Mark Galassi but it's not in libguile/*.h headers. It's not
> in a snapshot version either. Neither I can find others like
> scm_c_symbol2str or scm_symbol2str (I'm trying to use scm_ functions
> you see).

Functions are being added to the scm_ interface as we prepare to
eventually deprecate the gh_ interface, so those functions may exist
in 1.5.X or CVS HEAD, but not in your version (1.4.X?).

> Please advise how to deal with this mess^h^h^h^hpuzzle.

Well, for now, you can use the equivalent gh_ functions if you're
running 1.4.X, and instead of scm_object_to_string, you could use
scm_simple_format.

Something like the following perhaps (though you may need to translate
some of the scm_ functions to their equivalent gh_ functions).  You
may also need better error checking:

  char *
  objtostr (SCM obj)
  {
    char *result;
    size_t length;

    SCM fmt = scm_makfrom0str("~S");
    SCM scmstr = scm_simple_format(SCM_BOOL_F, fmt, SCM_LIST_1(obj));
    length = SCM_STRING_LENGTH(scmstr);
    result = malloc(length + 1);
    if (!result) die...
    memcpy (result, SCM_STRING_CHARS (scmstr), length)
    result[length] = '\0';
    return result;
  }

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