On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 15:09 -0800, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 23:45 +0100, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> > [CCode (array_length = false)] will make Vala turn errmess.length into
> > constant -1 instead of errmess_length1. I don't know of any way to
> > make that constant 252 instead.
> IIRC this should do the trick:
> [CCode (cname == "os_error")]
> public struct error {
> public unowned int errnum;
> public unowned char errmess[252];
> }
Great, this indeed works. The position of the [] in both versions
confuse me, though.
> > If errmess is null-terminated and utf-8 encoded, you could wrap it as
> > a weak string.
Why weak?
> I agree, binding it as a string is likely the right way to go.
The string not necessarily 0-terminated (although the vast majority will
be) and latin1 encoded (though the vast majority will be ASCII only).
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Jan-Jaap
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