[erlang-questions] Proper type for passing pointer to/from linked-in driver?

[Joel Meyer]

Thanks Sergej. I'll look at the NIF spec again. I'm making heavy use of the
async thread pool to avoid blocking a scheduler thread, I don't recall
seeing a similar pool available for NIFs, but I may have missed it.

Joel

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Rapsey <rapsey@REDACTED> wrote:

> That's how I did it in my old driver. Then I switched to a NIF and life was
> so much easier with resources. You should think about using a NIF instead of
> a driver.
>
>
> Sergej
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Joel Meyer <joel.meyer@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> What's the recommended way to pass a pointer between a linked-in driver
>> and the beam? I can cast it to a uint64_t and use ErlDrvUInt64 (and do the
>> reverse when sending it back to the driver), but maybe there's a better way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joel
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