[Gambas-user] Returning an integer from an external function broken? Gambas 2.1.0 and 2.2.0

[Benoit Minisini]

On dimanche 24 février 2008, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On dimanche 24 février 2008, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > On dimanche 24 février 2008, Audiossis wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >         Sorry to report that in Gambas 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 (Fedora 7),
> > > returning an
> > > integer from an external function appears to be broken.
> > >
> > > I updated from Gambas 2.0.0 where my code (see below) worked fine, to
> > > Gambas
> > > 2.1.0 where it no longer works, and then subsequently to Gambas 2.2.0
> > > where
> > > it still doesn't work.
> > >
> > > Snippet......
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > PUBLIC rInit AS Integer
> > > LIBRARY "libusb-0.1"
> > >
> > > PRIVATE EXTERN usb_init() AS Integer
> > >
> > > PUBLIC FUNCTION init()
> > >
> > >   rInit = usb_init()
> > >
> > > END
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In versions previous to Gambas 2.1.0 the external function returns an
> > > integer
> > > to the rInit variable, letting me know of the success or failure of the
> > > libusb init routine.
> > >
> > > In Gambas 2.1.0 and above, this code returns the error "Type mismatch:
> > > Wanted
> > > Integer, got Function instead."
> > >
> > > This error is not related to the particular function being called and
> > > happens
> > > with ALL external functions I am calling from the libusb library. I
> > > even
> > > regressed back to Gambas 2.0.0 just to verify that I hadn't
> > > accidentally
> > > screwed up my code and sure enough the program started working again.
> > >
> > > Is this a bug with the new version? or has the syntax for returning an
> > > integer/string/variant from an external function changed?
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated!
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > This is a bug. What a shame if was not detected before...
>
> I catched the guilty guy. Laurent found fun to disable the external
> function management just for OpenBSD, but he actually disabled it for every
> OS! He fixed the problem, but just after the release of Gambas 2.2.
>
> Well let's make gambas 2.2.1...

The bug has been fixed. I have just uploaded the 2.2.1 source archive on 
sourceforge.

-- 
Benoit Minisini