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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/Object.3')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Object.3 b/doc/Object.3 index 1fed7a6..df930dd 100644 --- a/doc/Object.3 +++ b/doc/Object.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" SCCS: @(#) @(#) Object.3 1.10 97/07/22 11:40:10 +'\" SCCS: @(#) @(#) Object.3 1.11 97/12/19 11:07:43 '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_Obj 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Because of this representation invalidation and regeneration, it is dangerous for extension writers to access \fBTcl_Obj\fR fields directly. It is better to access Tcl_Obj information using -procedures like \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR. +procedures like \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetString\fR. .PP Objects are allocated on the heap and are referenced using a pointer to their \fBTcl_Obj\fR structure. @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The byte array must always have a null after the last byte, at offset \fIlength\fR; this allows string representations that do not contain nulls to be treated as conventional null-terminated C strings. -C programs use \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR to get +C programs use \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR and \fBTcl_GetString\fR to get an object's string representation. If \fIbytes\fR is NULL, the string representation is invalid. @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ An object typically starts out containing only a string representation: it is untyped and has a NULL \fItypePtr\fR. An object containing an empty string or a copy of a specified string is created using \fBTcl_NewObj\fR or \fBTcl_NewStringObj\fR respectively. -An object's string value is gotten with \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR +An object's string value is gotten with +\fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR or \fBTcl_GetString\fR and changed with \fBTcl_SetStringObj\fR. If the object is later passed to a procedure like \fBTcl_GetIntFromObj\fR that requires a specific internal representation, @@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ An object's two representations are duals of each other: changes made to one are reflected in the other. For example, \fBTcl_ListObjReplace\fR will modify an object's internal representation and the next call to \fBTcl_GetStringFromObj\fR -will reflect that change. +or \fBTcl_GetString\fR will reflect that change. .PP Representations are recomputed lazily for efficiency. A change to one representation made by a procedure |