[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] gobject: Turn FBuffer into a GByteArray *

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Fri Jan 20 17:58:38 UTC 2012


This change is intended to improve language bindings by turning <field> and
<field>_size in a struct into a single array object. I had wanted to just turn
it into a GByteArray embedded in the struct, but this caused gjs to segfault.
The docs suggest a GByteArray should be allocated with g_byte_array_new(), so I
did that and it worked fine. I guess something somewhere assumes it's an
allocated object.

Incidentally, the perl bindings segfault attempting to access the array either
way. At this stage I suspect the perl bindings rather than my code. Valgrind
shows nothing untoward happening before the crash, and the memory when inspected
with gdb contains exactly what is expected.
---
 generator/generator_gobject.ml |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/generator/generator_gobject.ml b/generator/generator_gobject.ml
index 2b151c6..4779f23 100644
--- a/generator/generator_gobject.ml
+++ b/generator/generator_gobject.ml
@@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ let generate_gobject_header_structs () =
         | n, FString ->
           pr "  gchar *%s;\n" n
         | n, FBuffer ->
-          pr "  guint8 *%s;\n" n;
-          pr "  guint32 %s_size;\n" n
+          pr "  GByteArray *%s;\n" n
         | n, FUUID ->
           pr "  /* The next field is NOT nul-terminated, be careful when printing it: */\n";
           pr "  gchar %s[32];\n" n
@@ -811,9 +810,10 @@ let generate_gobject_c_methods () =
               indent src n dst n src n
           | n, FBuffer ->
             pr "%sif (%s%s) {\n" indent src n;
-            pr "%s  memcpy(%s%s, %s%s, %s%s_len);\n"
+            pr "%s  %s%s = g_byte_array_sized_new(%s%s_len);\n"
+              indent dst n src n;
+            pr "%s  g_byte_array_append(%s%s, %s%s, %s%s_len);\n"
               indent dst n src n src n;
-            pr "%s  %s%s_size = %s%s_len;\n" indent dst n src n;
             pr "%s}\n" indent
         ) (cols_of_struct typ)
       in
-- 
1.7.7.5




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