Module: Marquise::FFI

Extended by:
FFI::Library
Defined in:
lib/marquise/ffi.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.pointer_list_from_string_array(ary) ⇒ Object

Common helper to take an array of strings (or things that we’ll turn into strings) and turn it into an FFI::MemoryPointer containing FFI::MemoryPointers for each string.



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# File 'lib/marquise/ffi.rb', line 54

def self.pointer_list_from_string_array(ary)
	ptrs = []
	ary.each { |e| ptrs << ::FFI::MemoryPointer.from_string(e.to_s) }
	ptrs << nil
	
	ptr = ::FFI::MemoryPointer.new(:pointer, ptrs.length)
	ptrs.each_with_index { |p, i| ptr[i].write_pointer(p) }
	
	ptr
end