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

[Jan-Jaap van der Geer <jjvdgeer inbox com>]

Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, great tip! Changing the code to:

Memory.copy(&foo.Bar.Name, "foobar", 12);

made it work:) Thanks!

Cheers,
Jan-Jaap