Re: GLIB Hash Data
- From: Ruben I Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>
- To: ruben mrbrklyn com
- Cc: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>, Ruben I Safir <ruben mrbrklyn com>, Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>, Gtk-List <gtk-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: GLIB Hash Data
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:33:15 -0400
In regards to g_strdup, do I need to allocate the memory for the returned string. It's not
clear in the documentation. Or do I still need to allocate the memory seperately
Ruben
On 2002.04.25 11:28 Ruben I Safir wrote:
> 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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