From Richard.Beare@cmis.csiro.au  Sun Mar  4 23:23:09 2001
From: Richard.Beare@cmis.csiro.au (Richard Beare)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:23:09 +1000
Subject: [Rd] passing pointer types via .C calls
Message-ID: <3AA2CE5D.D00E9052@cmis.csiro.au>

Hi,
this relates to my earlier message about external references and
finalizers. I was experimenting over the weekend and now suspect that
the appropriate solution to my problem will be to have a special case in
the code that handles the .C call so that external references are
handled appropriately - I guess that a pointer to the reference should
be passed to the C code. As I've never experimented with the R internals
before I thought that I had better check peoples opinion. Does this
approach break anything in the work the Luke Tierney has been doing?
I've only had a quick look so far so I'm not really certain how the code
that handling the .C call is meant to work. I have successfully passed
the pointer to the external reference to my code, but I'm really not
sure about how the conventions used for this kind of thing - who should
I be talking to about it?

All advice welcome....

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[Rd] passing pointer types via .C calls
Richard Beare