Treating a Type as an Opaque Blob of Bytes (original) (raw)

The bindgen User Guide

Treating a Type as an Opaque Blob of Bytes

Sometimes a type definition is simply not translatable to Rust, for example it usesC++'s SFINAE for which Rust has no equivalent. In these cases, it is best to treat all occurrences of the type as an opaque blob of bytes with a size and alignment. bindgen will attempt to detect such cases and do this automatically, but other times it needs some explicit help from you.

Library

• bindgen::Builder::opaque_type

Command Line

• --opaque-type <type>

Annotation

/// <div rustbindgen opaque></div>
class Foo {
    // ...
};