[Win32utils-devel] strcpy declaration

[Daniel Berger]

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> bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Heesob Park
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:28 AM
> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] strcpy declaration
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 2011/8/25 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 	In windows-pr strcpy is declared with a prototype of "PL".
> However, I can't
> 	make that work:
> 
> 	require 'win32/api'
> 	include Win32
> 
> 	Strcpy_p = Win32::API.new('strcpy', 'PP', 'L', 'msvcrt')
> 	Strcpy_l = Win32::API.new('strcpy', 'PL', 'L', 'msvcrt')
> 
> 	buf = 0.chr * 4
> 	str = "hello"
> 
> 	Strcpy_p.call(buf, str) # works
> 	p buf
> 
> 	buf = 0.chr * 4
> 	str = "hello"
> 
> 	Strcpy_l.call(buf, str.unpack('L').first) # fails, segfault
> 	p buf
> 
> 	I would think either declaration would work but apparently not.
> 
> 	Have we simply not been using this function all this time?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This works:
> 
> buf = 0.chr * 5
> str = "hello"
> Strcpy_l.call(buf, [str].pack('p').unpack('L').first)
> p buf

Thanks!

Regards,

Dan