Re: [Help-smalltalk] gst_string_to_oop with local string

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/11/2009 12:58 AM, Roland Plüss wrote:
> char buffer[ 50 ];
> sprintf( ( char* )&buffer, "(%f,%f,%f,%f)", csobject.color.r,
> csobject.color.g, csobject.color.b, csobject.color.a );
> return gst_string_to_oop( buffer );
>
> Returns garbage in smalltalk ( function returns OOP by the way and is
> mapped with #smalltalk as return value ). As I get from the
> documentation this function only "maps" the string and does not make a
> copy.

No, that's not true.  I think you are overrunning the buffer (besides, 
(char*)&buffer is simply "buffer").  Try asprintf, like

  char *buffer;
  asprintf (&buffer, ...);
  OOP stringOOP = gst_string_to_oop (buffer);
  free (buffer);
  return stringOOP;

Paolo