racket/collects/ffi/examples/c-printf.rkt
2012-07-27 10:31:26 -04:00

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#lang racket/base
(require ffi/unsafe)
;; This code demonstrates how to interface `printf' which can be used with
;; different arities and types. Also, `printf' is unsafe unless this code will
;; parse the format string and make sure that all the types match, instead, if
;; this code is used in a library, it should be provided from a module with
;; `unsafe' in its name. (Note that originally there was an `unsafe!'
;; declaration for using the ffi, and this code demonstrated adding a similar
;; `c-printf-is-dangerous!' declaration.)
;; It's not too useful, since the C printf will obviously ignore
;; `current-output-port'.
(provide c-printf)
(define interfaces (make-hash))
(define (c-printf fmt . args)
(define itypes
(cons _string
(map (lambda (x)
(cond [(and (integer? x) (exact? x)) _int]
[(and (number? x) (real? x)) _double*]
[(string? x) _string]
[(bytes? x) _bytes]
[(symbol? x) _symbol]
[else (error 'c-printf
"don't know how to deal with ~e" x)]))
args)))
(let ([printf (hash-ref interfaces itypes
(lambda ()
;; Note: throws away the return value of printf
(let ([i (get-ffi-obj "printf" #f
(_cprocedure itypes _void))])
(hash-set! interfaces itypes i)
i)))])
(apply printf fmt args)))