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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hello,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I would like to wruite a Pyrex wrapper for a function
which is called in C as follows:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> int dbgetv(Dbptr db, char *table_name,
char *field_name, void *value1, [ char *field_name2, void *value2, ... ], 0 )</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I.e., after the first two arguments, the function uses
vararg to accept a variable argument list, which consists of pairs of arguments.
Each pair begins with a character string which specifies which data is to be
returned, followed by a pointer which is the place to put the data. The data returned
could be a character string, an integer, or a double. An example of a call to dbgetv
is:</span></font></p>
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char rsta[32];</span></font></p>
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double rtime, rendtime ; </span></font></p>
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dbgetv ( db, 0, "sta", rsta, "time", &rtime, "endtime",
&rendtime, 0) ;</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My problem is, how do I tell pyrex what pointers to
pass, when their types are only known at run time? Is there any way to do this
without figuring out what all the possible data types corresponding to the
various field names are? </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Phil</span></font></p>
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