Re: Returning pointer to array of structures

[Martin Buchan <M.J.Buchan@gre.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:30:34AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> OTOH, this is almost certainly an error:
> 
> 	 uri = xmlGetProp(cur, "name");
> 	 xmlFree(uri);
> 	 mePtr[i].appsubmenu = uri;
> 
> Assuming that xmlFree() is a "destructor", you shouldn't be calling it
> until you have actually finished with "uri". Given that you are
> storing "uri" for later use, you probably either shouldn't be calling
> xmlFree() at all, or you should be copying the string itself (e.g. 
> with strdup()), and not just the pointer.

Thanks! This was the error. I have used strdup() as you sugessted and
now it all seems to be working. My structure is returned to main()
successfully and i can print out each element using a for loop.

Thanks again for your help.

Martin