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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Copying strings which may contain NUL chars
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:03:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B4C4EC92-73A1-11D9-866D-000D9345235C@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050129120009.GA7721@furbychan.cocan.org>


On Jan 29, 2005, at 13:00, Richard Jones wrote:

> Is this code safe?  hv_iterkey returns a string and a length, but the
> string may contain ASCII NUL characters, and hence I cannot use
> caml_copy_string directly.
>
> Rich.
>
> CAMLprim value
> perl4caml_hv_iterkey (value hev)
> {
>   CAMLparam1 (hev);
>   CAMLlocal1 (strv);
>   HE *he = He_val (hev);
>   I32 len;
>   char *str = hv_iterkey (he, &len);
>   strv = caml_alloc_string (len);
>   memcpy (String_val (strv), str, len);
>   CAMLreturn (strv);
> }

I don't see anything wrong with this code.

-- Damien


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-31 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-29 12:00 Richard Jones
2005-01-31 16:03 ` Damien Doligez [this message]

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