Re: glib: binary trees & threaded main loops (maybe OT?)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:07:06PM +0100, Axel Bock wrote: 
> and, second question, I try to index words ("gtk", "something", "weird",
> ... ) in a b-tree. now I have found g_tree_insert(), but nothing about
> HOW it is inserted? if the string is inserted, how does the tree know
> *how long* the string is? :-)

The tree only knows about void*, it doesn't actually look at what the
void* points to, except via the GCompareFunc you pass in to
g_tree_new(). This implies that the strings are never copied by value.

Havoc