ctypes typecasting in perl

[Jérôme Étévé]

Would that help?

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpacktut.html

J.


On 9 September 2013 16:55, Shantanu Bhadoria <shantanu at cpan.org> wrote:
> I have been playing around with talking to some IMU chips i.e gyroscopes,
> magnetometers and accelerometers from my raspberryPi and I am facing a
> slight problem which might seem trivial to those familiar more with C or XS
> code than I. I am trying to read registers off a chip which store data in
> int16_t format but since the data is in simple binary code, essentially
> when I read the register I get a simple unsigned int value from it. Is
> there a function or module in perl which would allow me to convert typecast
> something as int16_t?
>
> esentially in python the following gives me int 64256 typecast into c_int16
> and returns -1280.
> from ctypes import *
> print c_int16(64256).value
>
> Is there a equivalent function or module in perl that would do it? My
> thanks to whoever can help me solve this problem.
>
> Cheers,
> -Shantanu Bhadoria



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