Could you tell me the EXACT type definition for "iovec" in your C header file?

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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a C -lib function requring a params  in this form:  struct
> iovec *hdr_names[]
> When I declare the above function, as from external .h file, I use the
> same syntax, minus the word strurct: iovec *hdr_names[]
>
> Now to create this data, I do this:
>
> cdef iovec *hdr_names=NULL
> hdr_names=<iovec*>malloc(total_count * sizeof(iovec))
>
> then go some loops and checks, filling the iovecs like this:
>
> hdr_names[ii].iov_base = <char*>hdr_n
> hdr_names[ii].iov_len = len(hdr_n)
>
>
> then dump eveything just to be sure, like this:
>
> for ii in range(total_count):
>    print "hdr_names[%d] : "%ii,
> PyString_FromStringAndSize(<char*>hdr_names[ii].iov_base,
> hdr_names[ii].iov_len)
>    print "hdr_values[%d]: "%ii,
> PyString_FromStringAndSize(<char*>hdr_values[ii].iov_base,
> hdr_values[ii].iov_len)
>
> then pass it to the C function like this: modify(hdr_names)
>
> That fails to compile: Cannot assign type 'iovec *' to 'iovec **'
> So I try: &hdr_names
>
> This compiles, but causes my program to crash with sigfault, right at
> that function call.
>
> I tried various other ideas.... but what is the correct way
> anyways.... I might have other issues causing the sigfaults, but
> wanted to be sure about the very syntax..
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Mohamed.
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