[pulseaudio-discuss] Vala arrays broken?

[David Henningsson]

Hi,

I wanted to enumerate the ports on the cards through vala today. I
quickly found that the vala binding was not up-to-date, so I added
fields for that (see attachment).

However, to be able to access the card ports, I needed to do two things
differently from how the existing arrays look:

 1) I needed to add this line to indicate the length of the array:

[CCode (array_length_cname="n_ports", array_length_type="uint32")]

 2) I needed to add a question mark to indicate these are
pointer-to-pointers (pa_card_port_info **). Otherwise vala would think
they are simple pointers (pa_card_port_info *) and fail with a segfault.

This raises the question if anybody ever has used these arrays before
and got them to work, or if I should just change this on all arrays
(with pointer-to-pointers)? Anybody who knows?

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
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