Is there some consideration being made about including wrappers to cover some common C Macros, which...

# kotlin-native

[napperley]

Is there some consideration being made about including wrappers to cover some common C Macros, which are in the bundled C libraries (varies by target)?

[svyatoslav.scherbina]

For example?

[napperley]

Bit manipulation. With the Linux target there are four macros that make it a bit easier to do bit manipulation:

void FD_CLR(int fd, fd_set *set);
int  FD_ISSET(int fd, fd_set *set);
void FD_SET(int fd, fd_set *set);
void FD_ZERO(fd_set *set);

These macros are often used with other functions to do synchronous I/O multiplexing ( https://linux.die.net/man/3/fd_zero ).

[svyatoslav.scherbina]

Feel free to contribute these ones.

[napperley]

Which area of the Kotlin Native code base holds Macro wrappers?

[svyatoslav.scherbina]

For example, these are for platform.posix.* on Linux:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/31e2fa28ad864302a9931226cc20caf648aecdec/platformLibs/src/platform/linux/posix.def#L63

[napperley]

Looks like a new naming pattern for the macro wrappers, and the wrappers are hidden in plain sight inside the source code (eg posix_FD_ZERO) simple smile 🔍.