Curious behavior with StringValuePtr()

ruby-talk
1

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.2 RC2
Windows 2000
VC++ 6.0

I was going to update all of my STR2CSTR() calls to StringValuePtr()
for one of my packages, when I noticed that I can't seem to pass it a
method without it raising a fuss.

This is the old snippet, which worked perfectly fine.

lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)STR2CSTR(rb_iv_get(self,"@source"));

This snippet fails, however:

lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)StringValuePtr(rb_iv_get(self,"@source"));

I get this error:

eventlog.c(554) : error C2102: '&' requires l-value
eventlog.c(554) : error C2198: 'rb_string_value_ptr' : too few actual
parameters

This behavior does not occur if I pass a plain value to StringValuePtr
instead of passing a function. And no, the casting is not the issue
(I tried a snippet without it).

Any ideas? Thanks.

Dan

2

I had the same experience. Unfortunately StringValue*() is not a
direct replacement for STR2CSTR, as it takes the address of the
parameter,

#define StringValue(v) rb_string_value(&(v))
#define StringValuePtr(v) rb_string_value_ptr(&(v))
#define StringValueCStr(v) rb_string_value_cstr(&(v))

My solution was

VALUE tmp = rb_iv_get(self,"@source");
lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)StringValuePtr(tmp);

ยทยทยท

--- Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:

lpSourceName = (LPCTSTR)StringValuePtr(rb_iv_get(self,"@source"));

I get this error:

eventlog.c(554) : error C2102: '&' requires l-value
eventlog.c(554) : error C2198: 'rb_string_value_ptr' : too few actual
parameters

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