Re: Loading database from string (C API)

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:49:50PM +0100, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 11:19 AM, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:38:29PM +0100, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> >> Just a guess.  Is the string properly allocated, such that it won't move
> >> or be overwritten or whatever if Prolog and or Python are going to
> >> do garbage collection or malloc() reuses the freed address, or ...
> > 
> > Well, I tried strdup()ing the input string within the open_stream()
> > function. Sadly no joy.
> 
> I wasn't happy, so I investigated a bit more.  My advice was wrong.
> One should use Sopenmem() rather than Sopen_string().  The latter
> has a quite specific meaning in its interaction with read_term().

Thanks Jan. Once I have finished integrating unit tests I will give that
a go.

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Edd Barrett

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