Module: DL::CStructBuilder

Defined in:
lib/dl/struct.rb

Overview

Used to construct C classes (CUnion, CStruct, etc)

DL::Importer#struct and DL::Importer#union wrap this functionality in an easy-to-use manner.

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.create(klass, types, members) ⇒ Object

Construct a new class given a C:

  • class klass (CUnion, CStruct, or other that provide an #entity_class)

  • types (DL:TYPE_INT, DL::TYPE_SIZE_T, etc., see the C types constants)

  • corresponding members

DL::Importer#struct and DL::Importer#union wrap this functionality in an easy-to-use manner.

Example:

require 'dl/struct'
require 'dl/cparser'

include DL::CParser

types, members = parse_struct_signature(['int i','char c'])

MyStruct = DL::CStructBuilder.create(CUnion, types, members)

obj = MyStruct.allocate



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# File 'lib/dl/struct.rb', line 50

def create(klass, types, members)
  new_class = Class.new(klass){
    define_method(:initialize){|addr|
      @entity = klass.entity_class.new(addr, types)
      @entity.assign_names(members)
    }
    define_method(:to_ptr){ @entity }
    define_method(:to_i){ @entity.to_i }
    members.each{|name|
      define_method(name){ @entity[name] }
      define_method(name + "="){|val| @entity[name] = val }
    }
  }
  size = klass.entity_class.size(types)
  new_class.module_eval(<<-EOS, __FILE__, __LINE__+1)
    def new_class.size()
      #{size}
    end
    def new_class.malloc()
      addr = DL.malloc(#{size})
      new(addr)
    end
  EOS
  return new_class
end