Re: [Vala] using a non-glib C library in vala

["Michael B. Trausch" <mbt zest trausch us>]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 15:41 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Did the meaning of [SimpleType] change somewhere?  I thought it meant
> "pass by value". 

And pardon me, I'm not thinking very clearly.  That sounds wrong.

My thought was that a SimpleType could be allocated statically, and
passing it would do something like (in C, continuing the example from
earlier in the thread):

ip_address_t foo;
memset(&foo, 0, sizeof(ip_address_t));

I can see writing things like this being frowned upon, but my thought
was that a SimpleType was just that.  It seems instead that all
allocations are supposed to come from the heap via (one way or another)
malloc/free?  Or am I still misunderstanding something?

        --- Mike

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