hi!

a few days ago i was pointed to P5NCI::Library to interact with C-libraries. i had a closer look at it and it's really useful and great! but by playing around with it, a few problems came up. it seems that load_function does not accept a void-signature. i put up a test-library that takes various arguments. amongst them 'void'. here is the .c-code for the test-library:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char *hello(void)
{
  static char result[]={"hello world"};
  return result;
}

char *bye(char *str)
{
  static char prefix[]={"good bye"};
  static char result[32];
  strcpy(result,prefix);
  strcat(result,str);
  return result;
}

char *return_char(int chr)
{
  static char result[1];
  sprintf(result, "%c", chr);
  return result;
}

int square(int x)
{
  x = (x * x);
  return x;
}

int do_nothing(void)
{
  return 1;
}

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and here is a little test-script using P5NCI::Library to interact with my test-library:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use P5NCI::Library;

my $lib = P5NCI::Library->new( library => 'hello_world', package => 'T
+EST' );

my $test = $lib->install_function( 'hello', 'tv' );
my $hello       = TEST::hello();
print "for hello() i got:          $hello\n";
undef $test;

my $test = $lib->install_function( 'return_char', 'ti' );
my $return_char = TEST::return_char( 65 );
print "for return_char(65) i got:  $return_char\n";
undef $test;

my $test = $lib->install_function( 'square', 'ii' );
my $square      = TEST::square( 3 );
print "for square(3) i got:        $square\n";
undef $test;

my $test = $lib->install_function( 'bye', 'tt' );
my $bye         = TEST::bye( "thanks for all the passwords" );
print "for bye(test) i got:        $bye\n";
undef $test;

my $test = $lib->install_function( 'do_nothing', 'vi' );
my $do_nothing  = TEST::do_nothing();
print "for do_nothing() i got:     $do_nothing\n";
undef $test;

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the functions 'return_char', 'square', and 'bye' work just perfect, but 'hello' and 'do_nothing' do not. both have a void input-signature.
am i doing something wrong, or is P5NCI having troubles with these kind of functions? TIA for any hint.
br, nos

In reply to P5NCI + void load_function-signature by nostromo

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