Tag: compilers
My advisor presented me with an interesting problem the other day.
Calling some simple C++ free functions that took C++ objects by value
using Python's ctypes produced strange results. We eventually narrowed the test
case down to the following:
1#include <stdio.h>
2
3struct Simple {
4 int x,y,z;
5};
6
7struct Fancy {
8 int x,y,z;
9 ~Fancy() {
10 printf("Destroying a Fancy\n");
11 }
12};
13
14extern "C" {
15 void printSimple(Simple s) {
16 fprintf(stderr, &qu…