The Network.Socket.Data code previously used hardcoded constants manually read
from auto-generated C source code, however these constants are specific to
Linux. The original code looked like this:
export
ToCode SocketFamily where
-- Don't know how to read a constant value from C code in idris2...
-- gotta to hardcode those for now
toCode AF_UNSPEC = 0 -- unsafePerformIO (cMacro "#AF_UNSPEC" Int)
toCode AF_UNIX = 1
toCode AF_INET = 2
toCode AF_INET6 = 10
The AF_INET6 constant is correct on my Debian 10 laptop:
molly on flywheel ~> grep -rE '^#define AF_INET6' /usr/include
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/socket.h:#define AF_INET6 PF_INET6
molly on flywheel ~> grep -rE '^#define PF_INET6' /usr/include
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/socket.h:#define PF_INET6 10 /* IP version 6. */
However, this is not the case on an OpenBSD machine:
spanner# grep -rE '^#define[[:space:]]+AF_INET6' /usr/include
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:#define AF_INET6 24 /* IPv6 */
This commit adds accessor functions to the C runtime support library for
retrieving the values of these macros as they appear in the system libc header
files, which can then be invoked using the normal C FFI machinery.
Meaning that the FFI is aware of it, so you can send arbitrary byte data
to foreign calls. Fixes#209
This means that we no longer need the hacky way of reading and writing
binary data via scheme, so can have a more general interface for reading
and writing buffer data in files.
It will also enable more interesting high level interfaces to binary
data, with C calls being used where necessary.
Note that the Buffer primitive are unsafe! They always have been, of
course... so perhaps (later) they should have 'unsafe' as part of their
name and better high level safe interfaces on top.
This requires updating the scheme to support Buffer as an FFI primitive,
but shouldn't affect Idris2-boot which loads buffers its own way.
It seems relevant to all BSD systems.
In xcode the option -Wno-error-implicit-function-declaration is enabled. So the following error occured:
Idris2/support/c/idris_file.c:76:13: Missing '#include <sys/time.h>'; declaration of 'select' must be imported from module 'Darwin.POSIX.sys.time' before it is required
I hope it won't break anything on linux.
