Re: Probably a simple answer...
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Tue, 14 May 2002 13:51:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Probably a simple answer... | ||
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Robert Cummings wrote:
>
> brad lafountain wrote:
> >
> > Well i do believe that the zval string SHOULD be null termiated and have the
> > length stored.
>
> You would think so, but on further thought, if that were the case you
> wouldn't be able to store compressed data from gzip in a string because
> the null bytes everywhere would interfere. Also, as I said, ZVAL_STRING
> suggests that this is so... since when you use it to set a zval container
> to a string it saves the length as strlen( passedString ), rather
> than strlen( passedString ) + 1, also the memcpy then uses this length
^^^^^^
I just took another look at ZVAL_STRING and it uses estrndup and
not memcpy... maybe I'm losing my mind :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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