Corrode doesn't handle varargs functions

[palfrey]

I was trying to convert ashuffle and got as far as https://github.com/joshkunz/ashuffle/blob/master/src/args.c#L20 before

stack exec -- corrode -c args.c -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -I/usr/local/Cellar/libmpdclient/2.10/include >/dev/null
("args.c": line 20): Corrode doesn't handle this yet:
    check_flags(const char * to_check, unsigned count, ...)

[palfrey]

This is with corrode as of 84c6d7b

[jameysharp]

Thanks for trying Corrode! This is because Rust doesn't support defining varargs functions. I haven't been able to think of any workable translation for this yet. 🙁

[palfrey]

So, unfortuantely the only way is to scan the function and look for uses of va_start, va_arg and va_end. If you're lucky, the va_list they're operating on never gets handed outside of the function and va_arg gets called with the same arg type every time (as happens in check_flags from my example). In that case, you could make the entire lot into an array argument of the relevant type. If not, then well you'd have to build something more complicated, but it might be worth starting from just that case as it'll get you a reasonable way along... I'd help out building such a thing if it wasn't for my not having written any Haskell for about 15 years!

[KamilaBorowska]

It's currently not possible to represent C varargs function in Rust. The problem isn't really recognizing varargs functions, but making them actually work and possible to call from C.