[scilab-Users] new api_scilab and stack-c.h

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Till,

Le mardi 10 janvier 2012 à 15:13 -0600, Till Straumann a écrit :
> Hello.

> However, I'm unable to build any of the api_scilab examples
> without also including 'stack-c.h' (or I get a lot of errors)
> plus, at the top of stack-c.h we find
> 
> #ifndef API_SCILAB_VERSION
> #pragma message("Using stack-c.h is deprecated. Please use api_scilab 
> instead (try 'help api_scilab'). Note the stack-c.h API will be removed 
> after Scilab 6.0.")
> #endif
> 
> so it seems we must
> 
> #include <api_scilab.h>
> #include <stack-c.h>
> 
> for now. Is that not somewhat broken by design? 
Yes and no. 
We tagged this file as deprecated to make sure developer understand that
api_scilab is the way to go. 
Some provided by stack-c (checkRhs for example) we will be moved in
api_scilab for the 6 release.

stack-c.h will probably be empty (and/or trigger a warning)

> PS: I tried to compile the example given on the scilab-5.3.3
> help page for getVarType() (API Scilab>Low level functions>Variable Type 
> (Scilab gateway))
> 
> Unfortunately, the example doesn't contain any #include directives.
Right. We should include them. Done here:
http://codereview.scilab.org/#change,5928

S


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