[jep442 / foreign function] Crash when calling ioctl function

[Guillaume Nodet]

Awesome, that works perfectly, thx a ton !

Le jeu. 24 août 2023 à 15:53, Maurizio Cimadamore <
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
> Ioctl is a variadic function - see manpage:
>
>
> ```
>        int ioctl(int fd, unsigned long request, ...);
> ```
>
> As such, you need to use a Linker.Option.firstVariadicArg when linking, to
> denote how many variadic arguments your function descriptor contains (I
> believe in your case you have 4 variadic arguments, so the first variadic
> index should be 2?)
>
> Cheers
> Maurizio
>
>
> On 24/08/2023 14:41, Guillaume Nodet wrote:
>
> Hi everybody
>
> I've been trying to port the JLine library to JEP 442 and earlier previews
> (nice work, I'm eagerly waiting for its GA release) every once in a while,
> but I'm stuck on a call for which I can't find my way around.
>
> The call is the ioctl function [1] which has untyped parameters, but
> whatever I've been feeding it crashes the JVM.  I've been successfully
> using this method with JNA [2] and a plain small JNI library [3], and after
> having spent countless hours, I must admit I can't find what's happening....
>
> Here's a very small reproducer:
>   https://github.com/gnodet/jep442-ioctl
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Guillaume Nodet
>
> [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/tty_ioctl.4.html
> [2]
> https://github.com/jline/jline3/blob/master/terminal-jna/src/main/java/org/jline/terminal/impl/jna/linux/CLibrary.java#L34
> [3]
> https://github.com/fusesource/jansi/blob/master/src/main/native/jansi.c#L64-L76
>
>

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