[Pythonmac-SIG] calldll MAXARGS

[Georges Martin]

I am currently trying to use calldll, but I ran into an annoying limitation:
calldll.newcall() only accepts 8 arguments for the C function.

I looked into the source and found the MAXARG constant in calldll.c, line 66:

> /* Other constants */
> #define MAXNAME 31    /* Maximum size of names, for printing only */
> #define MAXARG 8      /* Maximum number of arguments */

I changed this constant and the following format and args at line 1073:

>   /* Note: the next format depends on MAXARG */
>   if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!O&|O&O&O&O&O&O&O&O&", &Cdrtype, &routine,
>       argparse_rvconv, &rvconv,
>       argparse_conv, &argconv[0], argparse_conv, &argconv[1],
>       argparse_conv, &argconv[2], argparse_conv, &argconv[3],
>       argparse_conv, &argconv[4], argparse_conv, &argconv[5],
>       argparse_conv, &argconv[6], argparse_conv, &argconv[7]))
>       return NULL;

...and recompiled but the result is crashing hard.

I suppose it's not enough but C has never been one of my natural language, so if
someone has a suggestion... :-)

TIA,

Georges Martin
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Georges Martin  <mailto:georges.martin@deboeck.be>