Derek Simkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gtkeditable.h has the following comment in its class struct
> definition, just above its list of virtual functions:
>
> /* Virtual functions. get_chars is in paricular not a signal because
> * it returns malloced memory. The others are not signals because
> * they would not be particularly useful as such. (All changes to
> * selection and position do not go through these functions)
> */
>
> My question is about "get_chars is in paricular not a signal
> because it returns malloced memory". This implies that I can't emit a
> signal whose handler takes a pointer to something my object malloced.
>
The comment says you can't _return_ malloced memory, it doesn't say
anything about the arguments.
(If you could return malloced memory, what happens if there are two
signal handlers?)
Havoc
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