1. string pointer
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does allocate_string("string") copy string or does it just return =
pointer to sequence and is because of that fast?
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2. Re: string pointer
Hello ©koda,
>does allocate_string("string") copy string or does it just return pointer
>to sequence and is because of that fast?
It returns a memory address of the first character in memory ('s').
It DOES "copy" the string and poke it to memory I think but if you
pass it a literal (like your example) the original sequence is
freed from memory as soon as allocate_string () returns.
Lewis Townsend
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3. Re: string pointer
allocate_string("string") allocates the number of bytes in "string"+1(the
extra byte is for a NULL character which terminates most, if not all,
strings) and pokes it into the resulting pointer, which it returns to you.
