Re: [Vala] Upcoming changes in object construction syntax

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sam, 2007-03-10 at 00:19 -0600, Cayle Graumann wrote: 
> Jurg,
>
>         I'm having a hard time with the new creation syntax in vapi
> files.  As of revision 228, It looks like the compiler is ignoring any
> [CCode] directives when it sees a creation method definition .
>
> You can see this with the String.sized method in glib-2.0.vala
>
> Inside of vapi/glib-2.0.vala (line 1197)
>
>       [CCode (cname = "g_string_sized_new")]
>         public String.sized (ulong dfl_size);
>
> However when you use this function like so
>
>         var line = new String.sized(1024);
>
> The compiler generates:
>
>         GString* line = g_string_new_sized (1024);
>
> instead of
>
>         GString* line = g_string_sized_new (1024);

Thanks for the report. You can apply the attached patch to fix the
issue.

Jürg

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