Re: possible bug

[Brett Nash <nash nash nu>]

How is some_other_string allocated then?  Remember C pointers emulate
references - so somestring and some_other_string both refer to the same
string.  If some_other_string is free'd somestring will be as well.
However unless you manually update the somestring, the pointer will be
pointing to an invalid address.

        nash

* Jeffrey Goddard <moosewood mooseroot org> wrote:
> gchar *somestring;
>
>
> void
> some_callback_function(widget, user_data)
> {
>       somestring = some_other_string;
> }
>
> as long as this is done in a callback function, the string stays. if it is 
> done in a function that is not a callback function, when the program goes 
> into the gtk_main() loop the string is cleared(?) to a null string. the 
> address of the pointer is still the same, but the data is off in the bit 
> bucket somewhere. i used the term initializing incorrectly in this context. i 
> am actually assigning values from a MySQL database, and it's the initial 
> loading of all the variables.
> Jeffrey
> On Wednesday 01 January 2003 14:48, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> >  If you post your coded snipet it would help us find the problem.
> >
> >  What do you mean by initializing ?
> >
> >  foo(){
> >  gchar*  c =  "something" ;
> > }
> >
> >   foo(){
> >   gchar* c = strdup("something");
> >
> > }
> >
> >  Both initialize, but have different memory context.
> >
> >  Again, posting the code would help.
> >
> > Harring.
>
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