RE: gint to gchar: g_sprintf

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> > gint add = 10;
>
> you should declare here gchar *addid:
> gchar *addid = NULL;
>
> and before the call to g_sprintf you should assign enough 
> memory for this
> variable too, for example:
> addid = (gchar *) g_malloc (25);
> will make addid to point to a piece of memory of 25 bytes (of chars)
>
> > g_sprintf(gchar *addid,"%d", add);
>
> you should ommit the type specification of addid:
> g_sprintf (addid, "%d", add);

OR

you could do:

        gint a = 10;
        gchar *str = NULL;

        str = g_strdup_printf("%d", a);
        
        /* use the str */
        g_message("my new string is: '%s'", str);

        /* clean up */
        g_free(str);


Regards,
Martyn