Yep, that was it! Thanks.
- Jim
On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 4:57:44 AM UTC-6, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> Do you mean something different from
>
> cobj = Array(Uint8, len)
> ccall(:foo, void, (Ptr{Void},), cobj)
>
> ?
> --Tim
>
> On Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:50:51 PM James Crist wrote:
> > This is more of a curiousity question than an actual use case. Is there
> any
> > way to have Julia manage heap allocated memory that is initialized by a
> C
> > function? By this, I mean suppose I had a function:
> >
> > void foo(void *x) {
> > ...initize some structure in C here from the memory passed in by
> x...
> > }
> >
> > In C, I would malloc, then pass in the memory to the initialization. Is
> > there any way to do this in Julia, but have Julia manage the memory?
>
>
