Re: [Vala] Trouble filling a char array in a struct

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Jan-Jaap van der Geer
<jjvdgeer inbox com>wrote:

> Pre Vala 0.13.2 I had code like this:
>
>  var foo = Foo();
>  Memory.copy(foo.Bar.Name, "foobar", 12);
>
> This worked fine, as can be seen in the generated C:
>
>  f foo = {0};
>  memset (&foo, 0, sizeof (f));
>  memcpy (foo.bar.name, "foobar", (gsize) 12);
>
> (aren't the {0} and the memset() doing the same thing?)

Yes, ideally the memset could be avoided.
Try using a pointer, like Foo* foo = &bar; and then call memcpy on
foo->name.

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