Re: newbie: local buf = ffi.new("char[?]", "HELLO WORLD") fails SOLVED

From: "Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:39:46 -0700

On Thursday 21, Patrick Masotta wrote:
> local buf = ffi.new("char[?]", 0, "HELLO WORLD")  does the trick

Don't do that you are corrupting memory.  See that attached script.

-- 
Robert G. Jakabosky

local ffi = require"ffi"

local bufs = {}

for i=1,1000 do
        bufs[i] = ffi.new("char[?]", 0, "Hello, 
World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
end

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