[Gambas-devel] Store GB_VARIANT in memory

[Tobias Boege]

Hi,

I want to save a GB_VARIANT into a buffer, Ref() the object inside, if any,
and return in later properly. My code looks something like this:

static void *val;

BEGIN_METHOD(Store, GB_VARIANT value)

	/* Tried also GB_VARIANT here, but the error differs only, maybe
	 * because of the application... */
	GB.Alloc(&val, sizeof(GB_VARIANT_VALUE));
	GB.StoreVariant(ARG(value), val);

END_METHOD

BEGIN_METHOD_VOID(Restore)

	GB.ReturnVariant(val);
	GB.Free(&val);

END_METHOD

Suppose each Store() matches a Restore(), I get Segfaults in VALUE_write()
and since I don't quite look through Gambas datatype and storage (yesterday
crusaded against object reference counting successfully, though) I thought
it's simpler to ask directly - the array types were not really helpful to
me as I could not get to the exact point where memory allocation takes
place. Or, if I were there (ARRAY_add_data()?), I didn't get it.

BTW, the above is clearly simplified, I need allocating val dynamically.

Regards,
Tobi