[Pyrex] ctypedef in a "cdef extern from" block

[Greg Ewing]

Matthias Baas <baas at ira.uka.de>:

> I want to wrap a C library that contains a function, let's call it 
> getProc(), which returns a pointer to another function.
> 
> The problem with the function pointer is that I can't exactly 
> describe it within Pyrex

Are you sure you can't describe it exactly in Pyrex? What
does it look like?

> So it doesn't keep the typedef'd name but replaces it with its
> definition which is not the "real" one
> 
> I'm not even sure if this has to be considered being a bug

The best way of dealing with this would be to tell the truth
about the function's type if at all possible. I'll have to
see its real definition before I can say any more.

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