Re: GLIB Hash Data

[Ruben I Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>]

Thanks

Is it common practice to use GStrings in this circumstance?


Ruben

On 2002.04.25 07:33 Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ruben I Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com> writes:
> 
> > The example is very simple.  Take in data from STDIN and use it for hash
> > keys and values.  I have to create a new pointer every time to do this
> > with the hash functions in glib.  The only way I can think of doing this is 
> > with mallac.  The STDIN has to go into a defined buffer which will point
> > to the same emmory location  every time.  Even strcpy would be useless
> > in this case without mallocing new memory by hand every time.
> 
> that's why there's g_strdup() which does just that.
> 
> > IF it sees it's a char * it should just take in the data.
> 
> there is no way for glib to check if the pointer passed in is pointing
> to a character array. Even if there would be a way, how is it supposed
> to know if it needs to copy the string or if you are using static
> strings?
> 
> 
> Salut, Sven
> 
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