Writing C extensions for Racket
Written by Dominik Joe Pantůček on 2016-05-26
As our latest project has progressed we encountered a strange obstacle: there is no portable way to determine file inode number in Racket. That would not be much of a problem, but as we tried to dynamically link stat-like functions from libc using ffi, we found that each platform and glibc version has different ABI - including the sizes of various stat structure fields. So we dived into writing extensions in the C programming language.
