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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2018-09-01 22:01:35 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2018-09-01 22:01:35 (GMT)
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Change ckalloc and friends to Tcl_Alloc and friends. Add two defines, TCL_IO_FAILURE and TCL_NO_LENGTH (experimental, still open to be renamed following discussion)
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@@ -186,8 +186,8 @@ to be treated as conventional null character-terminated C strings.
These restrictions are easily met by using Tcl's internal UTF encoding
for the string representation, same as one would do for other
Tcl routines accepting string values as arguments.
-Storage for the byte array must be allocated in the heap by \fBTcl_Alloc\fR
-or \fBckalloc\fR. Note that \fIupdateStringProc\fRs must allocate
+Storage for the byte array must be allocated in the heap by \fBTcl_Alloc\fR.
+Note that \fIupdateStringProc\fRs must allocate
enough storage for the string's bytes and the terminating null byte.
.PP
The \fIupdateStringProc\fR for Tcl's built-in double type, for example,