cdef.md

C definitions library

Source: include/stdlib/c/cdef.ml

Provides ML-equivalents of commonly used c types, type sizes and macros.

Aliases

Alias	Alias of
c_void	void
c_char	int8
c_short	int16
c_int	int32
c_long	int32
c_long_long	int64
c_str	int8*
c_stream	FILE*

Macros

Macro	Description
null	Null pointer constant
stdin	Standard input stream, used for reading conventional input
stdout	Standard output stream, used for writing conventional output
stderr	Standard error stream, used for writing diagnostic output
c_ptr_size	Size of the void* c primitive
c_char_size	Size of the char c primitive
c_short_size	Size of the short c primitive
c_int_size	Size of the int c primitive
c_long_size	Size of the long c primitive
c_long_long_size	Size of the long long c primitive

Warnings

Warning

The aliased ML-eqivalents of the c types behave like their fixed-length counterparts. Traditional c types sizes are implementation-defined. ML attempts to fix this problem once and for all.