Bug#190887: the "sizeof" hash is missing
Celelibi
celelibi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 15:58:34 UTC 2012
Hi,
Almost 10 years later this bug still exists and still bother a few
people every once in a while... Including me these last days. :)
If perl developers arn't willing to patch h2ph to generate a %sizeof
hash, I think debian could (at least) patch the .ph files it
distributes.
Moreover, a portable way to define %sizeof for simple types could be
something like:
our %sizeof = (
'int' => length(pack("i!", 0)),
'unsigned int' => length(pack("I!", 0))
);
However, I don't see any automatic way to determine the size of
structures like 'struct termios', which is used by a few ioctl.
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