[ocaml-ctypes] Help with strings

[john skaller]

> On 29 Dec. 2017, at 03:31, Jeremy Yallop <yallop at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hmm. What does it mean when it says “the size and alignment are retrieved”??
>> The only way to do that would be to generate C code and measure it.
> 
> Indeed, that's exactly what happens.  The C standard doesn't place
> many constraints on the layout of enums, so there isn't really another
> way of building enum types that’s guaranteed to work.


Layout rules in general for C are fully fixed by the ABI.
That’s platform dependent BUT you only need to figure out
the ABI once per platform. Otherwise, there’d be no way
to bind to the C standard library which is usually the vendor
provided access to the OS kernel.

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