Re: Array of short values

[Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek at or dot uni-bonn dot de>]

Am Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Jacobowitz:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:32:08PM +0100, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to easily set an array of short as a convenience variable?
> >
> > set $arr = (short *) {1, 2, 3}
> >
> > Currently I have to use:
> >
> > set $arr = (short *) {0x00020001, 0x00000003}
>
> I don't think so.  { (short) 1, (short) 2 } should work, though.
> Maybe someone will add C99 support to the C parser some day, and
> improve this along the way.
>
> Just so you know: this is probably not doing what you expect.  Try
> "print $arr".  In fact it's probably calling malloc() in the program,
> allocating memory, and stuffing your shorts there.  I did some
> experimenting with this but got too confused by the parser - I'll be
> back to it, since it's related to my recent Python project.

I would not expect that it calls malloc within the program, because malloc 
could be broken during a debugging session. But I guess there are not many 
other possibilities left.

Thanks to you and Frederic.

Christoph