I am passing data from Rust to C. While passing primitives seems to be easy, I am kind of lost with structs.
I have the following Rust code:
use ::std::os::raw::*;
static NAME: &[c_char] = &[65, 66, 67, 0];
#[repr(C)]
pub struct MyStruct {
pub x: c_int,
pub y: *const c_char,
}
#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn get_my_struct() -> *const MyStruct {
let my_struct = MyStruct {
x: 11 as c_int,
y: NAME.as_ptr(),
};
unsafe {
::std::mem::transmute(Box::new(my_struct))
}
}
And the following C code:
typedef struct _my_struct my_struct;
extern const my_struct get_my_struct(void);
struct _my_struct {
int x;
const char *y;
};
int main(void) {
my_struct my_complex_struct = get_my_struct();
return 0;
}
The output from gdb says:
(gdb) p my_complex_struct
$1 = {x = 6295568, y = 0x7ffff7bce1e0 <ref> "ABC"}
The string looks fine but the int is definitely off. What am I missing here? Why is the value of x 6295568 and not 11?
Compiled by:
gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
rustc 1.20.0-nightly (8d22af87d 2017-07-22)
cargo 0.21.0-nightly (ffab51954 2017-07-18)
using:
cargo build
gcc --std=c11 -g -o main src/main.c /test/target/debug/libtest.so -L target/debug/