Re: [Vala] trying to allocate 4294967295 bytes

[Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian sspaeth de>]

Alberto Colombo wrote:
> I would guess, it's because you're assigning a weak reference (returned
> by data_get) to a strong one. When doing so, vala will make a copy of
> the object referred by the weak ref, which in this case means to copy an
> array of unknown length. Vala assigns -1 to data_length1 (to mean
> "undefined"), but unfortunately that causes an array of length
> 4294967295 to be allocated...
>
> You can probably solve the problem by using
>         weak uchar[] data;
> instead of 
>         uchar data;
> in your code.

DOH, that was it. Thanks. I clearly still have a lot to learn about vala
variables.

spaetz