More pidl issues in Samba 3

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:32 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > I've now realized that the struct winreg_StringBuf.name
> > buffer comes back with different member than it went 
> > in with. Even though the point of this call is to pass
> > in a buffer of the correct size.
> > Is this how things are expected to work ? I can live 
> > with it. It's just a little surprising and can lead
> > to memory leaks if you aren't aware of it.
> Actually, I've changed my mind.  We end up using twice
> as much memory per call.  I'll patch to do a memcpy() for
> ref arrays.  I'm assuming here that pointers within
> a [out,ref] structure should also be considered [ref],
> correct ?
No, they can be unique or full as well. Also, I think allocating twice
in this case is ok. The special thing here is that we are doing
conversions on these character strings - so the UTF-8 representation
might be different in size while the UCS-2 representation isn't. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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