Re: Declaring objects on the stack

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Marc Tardif <intmktg cam org> writes:
> Is there a way to declare a GString object on the stack and then pass a 
> reference to that object to an initialization method? For example:
> 
> GString str, *ptr;
> ptr = g_string_assign(&str, "foo");
> 
> Of course, I realize that the above is not valid because g_string_assign 
> expects cooked values in &str whereas values declared on the stack are likely 
> to contain garbage. So is there some other method which has the purpose of 
> initializing &str without allocating memory for the object on the heap?
> 

Nope. The actual size of a GString exceeds sizeof(GString), look at
gstring.c implementation code.

Havoc