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-'\"
-'\" Copyright (c) 1989-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
-'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-'\"
-'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
-'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
-'\"
-.TH Tcl_SetResult 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
-.so man.macros
-.BS
-.SH NAME
-Tcl_SetObjResult, Tcl_GetObjResult, Tcl_SetResult, Tcl_GetStringResult, Tcl_AppendResult, Tcl_AppendResultVA, Tcl_AppendElement, Tcl_ResetResult, Tcl_TransferResult, Tcl_FreeResult \- manipulate Tcl result
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
-.sp
-\fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR(\fIinterp, objPtr\fR)
-.sp
-Tcl_Obj *
-\fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
-.sp
-\fBTcl_SetResult\fR(\fIinterp, result, freeProc\fR)
-.sp
-const char *
-\fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
-.sp
-\fBTcl_AppendResult\fR(\fIinterp, result, result, ... , \fB(char *) NULL\fR)
-.sp
-\fBTcl_AppendResultVA\fR(\fIinterp, argList\fR)
-.sp
-\fBTcl_ResetResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
-.sp
-.VS 8.6
-\fBTcl_TransferResult\fR(\fIsourceInterp, result, targetInterp\fR)
-.VE 8.6
-.sp
-\fBTcl_AppendElement\fR(\fIinterp, element\fR)
-.sp
-\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
-.SH ARGUMENTS
-.AS Tcl_FreeProc sourceInterp out
-.AP Tcl_Interp *interp out
-Interpreter whose result is to be modified or read.
-.AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in
-Tcl value to become result for \fIinterp\fR.
-.AP char *result in
-String value to become result for \fIinterp\fR or to be
-appended to the existing result.
-.AP "const char" *element in
-String value to append as a list element
-to the existing result of \fIinterp\fR.
-.AP Tcl_FreeProc *freeProc in
-Address of procedure to call to release storage at
-\fIresult\fR, or \fBTCL_STATIC\fR, \fBTCL_DYNAMIC\fR, or
-\fBTCL_VOLATILE\fR.
-.AP va_list argList in
-An argument list which must have been initialized using
-\fBva_start\fR, and cleared using \fBva_end\fR.
-.AP Tcl_Interp *sourceInterp in
-.VS 8.6
-Interpreter that the result and error information should be copied from.
-.VE 8.6
-.AP Tcl_Interp *targetInterp in
-.VS 8.6
-Interpreter that the result and error information should be copied to.
-.VE 8.6
-.AP int result in
-.VS 8.6
-If \fBTCL_OK\fR, only copy the result. If \fBTCL_ERROR\fR, copy the error
-information as well.
-.VE 8.6
-.BE
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
-The procedures described here are utilities for manipulating the
-result value in a Tcl interpreter.
-The interpreter result may be either a Tcl value or a string.
-For example, \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR and \fBTcl_SetResult\fR
-set the interpreter result to, respectively, a value and a string.
-Similarly, \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR and \fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR
-return the interpreter result as a value and as a string.
-The procedures always keep the string and value forms
-of the interpreter result consistent.
-For example, if \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR is called to set
-the result to a value,
-then \fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR is called,
-it will return the value's string representation.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR
-arranges for \fIobjPtr\fR to be the result for \fIinterp\fR,
-replacing any existing result.
-The result is left pointing to the value
-referenced by \fIobjPtr\fR.
-\fIobjPtr\fR's reference count is incremented
-since there is now a new reference to it from \fIinterp\fR.
-The reference count for any old result value
-is decremented and the old result value is freed if no
-references to it remain.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR returns the result for \fIinterp\fR as a value.
-The value's reference count is not incremented;
-if the caller needs to retain a long-term pointer to the value
-they should use \fBTcl_IncrRefCount\fR to increment its reference count
-in order to keep it from being freed too early or accidentally changed.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_SetResult\fR
-arranges for \fIresult\fR to be the result for the current Tcl
-command in \fIinterp\fR, replacing any existing result.
-The \fIfreeProc\fR argument specifies how to manage the storage
-for the \fIresult\fR argument;
-it is discussed in the section
-\fBTHE TCL_FREEPROC ARGUMENT TO TCL_SETRESULT\fR below.
-If \fIresult\fR is \fBNULL\fR, then \fIfreeProc\fR is ignored
-and \fBTcl_SetResult\fR
-re-initializes \fIinterp\fR's result to point to an empty string.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR returns the result for \fIinterp\fR as a string.
-If the result was set to a value by a \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR call,
-the value form will be converted to a string and returned.
-If the value's string representation contains null bytes,
-this conversion will lose information.
-For this reason, programmers are encouraged to
-write their code to use the new value API procedures
-and to call \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR instead.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_ResetResult\fR clears the result for \fIinterp\fR
-and leaves the result in its normal empty initialized state.
-If the result is a value,
-its reference count is decremented and the result is left
-pointing to an unshared value representing an empty string.
-If the result is a dynamically allocated string, its memory is free*d
-and the result is left as a empty string.
-\fBTcl_ResetResult\fR also clears the error state managed by
-\fBTcl_AddErrorInfo\fR, \fBTcl_AddObjErrorInfo\fR,
-and \fBTcl_SetErrorCode\fR.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendResult\fR makes it easy to build up Tcl results in pieces.
-It takes each of its \fIresult\fR arguments and appends them in order
-to the current result associated with \fIinterp\fR.
-If the result is in its initialized empty state (e.g. a command procedure
-was just invoked or \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR was just called),
-then \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR sets the result to the concatenation of
-its \fIresult\fR arguments.
-\fBTcl_AppendResult\fR may be called repeatedly as additional pieces
-of the result are produced.
-\fBTcl_AppendResult\fR takes care of all the
-storage management issues associated with managing \fIinterp\fR's
-result, such as allocating a larger result area if necessary.
-It also manages conversion to and from the \fIresult\fR field of the
-\fIinterp\fR so as to handle backward-compatibility with old-style
-extensions.
-Any number of \fIresult\fR arguments may be passed in a single
-call; the last argument in the list must be a NULL pointer.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendResultVA\fR is the same as \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR except that
-instead of taking a variable number of arguments it takes an argument list.
-.PP
-.VS 8.6
-\fBTcl_TransferResult\fR moves a result from one interpreter to another,
-optionally (dependent on the \fIresult\fR parameter) including the error
-information dictionary as well. The interpreters must be in the same thread.
-The source interpreter will have its result reset by this operation.
-.VE 8.6
-.SH "DEPRECATED INTERFACES"
-.SS "OLD STRING PROCEDURES"
-.PP
-Use of the following procedures is deprecated
-since they manipulate the Tcl result as a string.
-Procedures such as \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR
-that manipulate the result as a value
-can be significantly more efficient.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_AppendElement\fR is similar to \fBTcl_AppendResult\fR in
-that it allows results to be built up in pieces.
-However, \fBTcl_AppendElement\fR takes only a single \fIelement\fR
-argument and it appends that argument to the current result
-as a proper Tcl list element.
-\fBTcl_AppendElement\fR adds backslashes or braces if necessary
-to ensure that \fIinterp\fR's result can be parsed as a list and that
-\fIelement\fR will be extracted as a single element.
-Under normal conditions, \fBTcl_AppendElement\fR will add a space
-character to \fIinterp\fR's result just before adding the new
-list element, so that the list elements in the result are properly
-separated.
-However if the new list element is the first in a list or sub-list
-(i.e. \fIinterp\fR's current result is empty, or consists of the
-single character
-.QW { ,
-or ends in the characters
-.QW " {" )
-then no space is added.
-.PP
-\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR performs part of the work
-of \fBTcl_ResetResult\fR.
-It frees up the memory associated with \fIinterp\fR's result.
-It also sets \fIinterp->freeProc\fR to zero, but does not
-change \fIinterp->result\fR or clear error state.
-\fBTcl_FreeResult\fR is most commonly used when a procedure
-is about to replace one result value with another.
-.SS "DIRECT ACCESS TO INTERP->RESULT"
-.PP
-It used to be legal for programs to
-directly read and write \fIinterp->result\fR
-to manipulate the interpreter result. The Tcl headers no longer
-permit this access by default, and C code still doing this must
-be updated to use supported routines \fBTcl_GetObjResult\fR,
-\fBTcl_GetStringResult\fR, \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR, and \fBTcl_SetResult\fR.
-As a migration aid, access can be restored with the compiler directive
-.CS
-#define USE_INTERP_RESULT
-.CE
-but this is meant only to offer life support to otherwise dead code.
-.SH "THE TCL_FREEPROC ARGUMENT TO TCL_SETRESULT"
-.PP
-\fBTcl_SetResult\fR's \fIfreeProc\fR argument specifies how
-the Tcl system is to manage the storage for the \fIresult\fR argument.
-If \fBTcl_SetResult\fR or \fBTcl_SetObjResult\fR are called
-at a time when \fIinterp\fR holds a string result,
-they do whatever is necessary to dispose of the old string result
-(see the \fBTcl_Interp\fR manual entry for details on this).
-.PP
-If \fIfreeProc\fR is \fBTCL_STATIC\fR it means that \fIresult\fR
-refers to an area of static storage that is guaranteed not to be
-modified until at least the next call to \fBTcl_Eval\fR.
-If \fIfreeProc\fR
-is \fBTCL_DYNAMIC\fR it means that \fIresult\fR was allocated with a call
-to \fBTcl_Alloc\fR and is now the property of the Tcl system.
-\fBTcl_SetResult\fR will arrange for the string's storage to be
-released by calling \fBTcl_Free\fR when it is no longer needed.
-If \fIfreeProc\fR is \fBTCL_VOLATILE\fR it means that \fIresult\fR
-points to an area of memory that is likely to be overwritten when
-\fBTcl_SetResult\fR returns (e.g. it points to something in a stack frame).
-In this case \fBTcl_SetResult\fR will make a copy of the string in
-dynamically allocated storage and arrange for the copy to be the
-result for the current Tcl command.
-.PP
-If \fIfreeProc\fR is not one of the values \fBTCL_STATIC\fR,
-\fBTCL_DYNAMIC\fR, and \fBTCL_VOLATILE\fR, then it is the address
-of a procedure that Tcl should call to free the string.
-This allows applications to use non-standard storage allocators.
-When Tcl no longer needs the storage for the string, it will
-call \fIfreeProc\fR. \fIFreeProc\fR should have arguments and
-result that match the type \fBTcl_FreeProc\fR:
-.PP
-.CS
-typedef void \fBTcl_FreeProc\fR(
- char *\fIblockPtr\fR);
-.CE
-.PP
-When \fIfreeProc\fR is called, its \fIblockPtr\fR will be set to
-the value of \fIresult\fR passed to \fBTcl_SetResult\fR.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-Tcl_AddErrorInfo, Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_SetErrorCode, Tcl_Interp
-.SH KEYWORDS
-append, command, element, list, value, result, return value, interpreter