I would like to wrap a set of C functions with the following sig.:
ErrorCode Initialize(int *argc,char ***args, ...)
How is the double pointer represented in the FFI call? It is a pointer to a list of strings; is the following plausible?
foreign import ccall unsafe "lib.h Initialize"
c_initialize :: Ptr CInt
-> Ptr [String]
-> IO (Ptr CInt)
Or is the second argument a Ptr (Ptr Char)
? I can't find this case in the literature I've read so far (Real World Haskell and the Wikibook) and my C is a bit rusty.
Thanks in advance
-- Correction :
RWH actually shows the interface to pcre_compile()
:
-- PCRE-compile.hs
foreign import ccall unsafe "pcre.h pcre_compile"
c_pcre_compile :: CString
-> PCREOption
-> Ptr CString
-> Ptr CInt
-> Ptr Word8
-> IO (Ptr PCRE)
Which corresponds to:
-- pcre.h
pcre *pcre_compile(const char *pattern,
int options,
const char **errptr,
int *errofset,
const unsigned char *tableptr);
So, taking all these suggestions into account, it seems like the most fitting signature is something like
foreign import ccall unsafe "lib.h Initialize"
c_initialize :: Ptr CInt
-> Ptr (Ptr CString)
-> IO (Ptr CInt)
Thank you all! will keep you posted