On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 15:46 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 15:41 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > Did the meaning of [SimpleType] change somewhere? I thought it meant > > "pass by value". > > And pardon me, I'm not thinking very clearly. That sounds wrong. > > My thought was that a SimpleType could be allocated statically, and > passing it would do something like (in C, continuing the example from > earlier in the thread): > > ip_address_t foo; > memset(&foo, 0, sizeof(ip_address_t)); > > I can see writing things like this being frowned upon, but my thought > was that a SimpleType was just that. It seems instead that all > allocations are supposed to come from the heap via (one way or another) > malloc/free? Or am I still misunderstanding something?
Vala structs are always stack/inline-allocated, it doesn't matter whether they are annotated with [SimpleType] or not. The only meaning of [SimpleType] is that values of these structs are passed by value in method calls. Normal structs are passed by reference. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
