From: Michal Rokos <m.rokos@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T22:59:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [Cleanup?] File (struct stat handling)

Hello,

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:33:35AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Why should we use memcpy instead of struct assigmnent?
> The concept of the second chunk is accepted.
> The third chunk is not.

	Now, I see what's wrong on my patch. Thanks nobu, matz.
	(Sometimes I need to think more before sending...)

	Let me know, please, if it is OK to commit:


Index: file.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.105
diff -u -p -r1.105 file.c
--- file.c	2002/08/21 15:47:54	1.105
+++ file.c	2002/08/23 12:46:08
@@ -2007,8 +2007,12 @@ rb_stat_init(obj, fname)
     if (stat(RSTRING(fname)->ptr, &st) == -1) {
 	rb_sys_fail(RSTRING(fname)->ptr);
     }
+    if (DATA_PTR(obj)) {
+	free(DATA_PTR(obj));
+	DATA_PTR(obj) = NULL;
+    }
     nst = ALLOC(struct stat);
-    *nst = st;
+    memcpy(nst, &st, sizeof(struct stat));
     DATA_PTR(obj) = nst;
 
     return Qnil;

	Thank you

		Michal

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