Re: [Chicken-users] Help with tokyocabinet, C const

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:26:40AM -0600, Evan E. wrote:
> Using easyffi, I've declared the foreign type and procedure. TCMAP is
> a hash map struct, tcmapget returns a value for a given key from the
> map object:
> 
> ___declare(type, "MAP;(nonnull-c-pointer \"TCMAP\");tc-map-ptr")
> const void *tcmapget(MAP map, ___scheme_pointer kbuf, int ksiz,  
> ___pointer int *sp);

It returns a pointer to the value as it's stored in the hashmap.
It does not make a copy of the value.  That means you shouldn't free it!

Cheers,
Peter
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