ExtUtil...s::Type(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to ExtUtils::Typemaps::Type(3pm) from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — here's the name tea: ExtUtils::Typemaps::Type — Entry in the TYPEMAP section of a typemap. No cap, that's the whole name vibe 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the tiny code moment, copy it exactly:

use ExtUtils::Typemaps;
...
my $type = $typemap->get_type_map('char*');
my $input = $typemap->get_input_map($type->xstype);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to ExtUtils::Typemaps for details, bestie. This object lowkey associates ctype with xstype, and xstype is the index into the in- and output mapping tables. That's the whole lore 🫶

🌈 METHODS 🌈

💫 new

• Requires xstype and ctype parameters.
• Optionally takes prototype parameter. But plot twist: the method to get/set the value is called proto rather than <prototype>. iykyk 💀

🎀 proto

proto returns or sets the prototype. Periodt.

🦋 xstype

xstype returns the name of the XS type that this C type is associated to. Slay.

🍓 ctype

ctype returns the name of the C type as it was set on construction. Iconic.

🧚 tidy_ctype

tidy_ctype returns the canonicalized name of the C type. It's giving clean and canonical 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ExtUtils::Typemaps

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> — yes, that's the author email, bestie 💌

🌟 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 🌟

Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Steffen Mueller

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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