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by_ref should be used for returned structs #34

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ghazel opened this issue Apr 2, 2015 · 1 comment
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by_ref should be used for returned structs #34

ghazel opened this issue Apr 2, 2015 · 1 comment

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@ghazel
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ghazel commented Apr 2, 2015

As seen here https://github.com/ffi/ffi/wiki/Structs#pointers-to-functions if a function returns a pointer to a struct, it should use SomeStruct.by_ref as the return type. Otherwise, ffi returns an FFI::Pointer.
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Agreed.

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