Linking with FFmpeg
MrOrdinaire
mrordinaire at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 07:54:30 PST 2013
On Sunday, 6 January 2013 at 12:46:05 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:48:25 +0100
> schrieb "MrOrdinaire" <mrordinaire at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on D bindings for FFmpeg. I am trying to port the
>> official examples of FFmpeg to D so that the bindings can be
>> tested.
>>
>> My question is how this function declaration is written in D.
>> int av_image_alloc(uint8_t *pointers[4], int linesizes[4],
>> int w, int h, enum AVPixelFormat pix_fmt,
>> int align);
>>
>
> My C is pretty bad, is uint8_t *pointers[4] a static array with
> 4
> elements of uint8_t* or is it a pointer to a static array with 4
> uint8_t elements?
>
> I guess it's the former, so in D it's (uint8_t*)[4] or better
> (ubyte*)[4]. In D static arrays are passed by value, in C by
> reference,
> so you have to do this:
>
> extern(C) int av_image_alloc(ref (ubyte*)[4] pointers, ref
> int[4]
> linesizes, int w, int h, AVPixelFormat pix_fmt, int align_);
>
>
> Some more information is here:
> http://dlang.org/interfaceToC.html
According to this (http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html), I
think pointers is an array of 4 pointers to uint8_t.
So in D, you read declarations from right to left?
- Minh
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