Re: Trouble getting QuantLibAddin to work with vc 7.1

Posted by eric ehlers on May 18, 2005; 7:41am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Trouble-getting-QuantLibAddin-to-work-with-vc-7-1-tp10802p10807.html

On 5/18/05, Plamen Neykov <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I've took a look where the TempStr function is used - it comes predominantely
> in the generated code - qladdin.cpp, I found only one reference elsewhere -
> in the file xlutils.cpp. I think the python generaton procedure could be
> easily changed in the way to generate in the first byte of a string literal
> the size of it directly so that this doesn't have to be done run-time - I
> could try to change it - what do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Plamen

Hi Plamen,

Here's a revised TempStr function which should do the trick:

LPXLOPER TempStr(LPSTR lpstr)
{
    LPXLOPER lpx;

    lpx = (LPXLOPER) GetTempMemory(sizeof(XLOPER));

    if (!lpx)
    {
        return 0;
    }
/*
    lpstr[0] = (BYTE) lstrlen (lpstr+1);
    lpx->xltype = xltypeStr;
//    lpx->val.str = (PUCHAR) lpstr;
    lpx->val.str = lpstr;
*/
    int len = strlen(lpstr);
    lpx->xltype = xltypeStr;
    lpx->val.str = GetTempMemory(len);
    if (!lpx->val.str) return 0;
    strncpy(lpx->val.str, lpstr, len);
    lpx->val.str[0] = (BYTE) len-1;

    return lpx;
}

But your proposed solution is much preferable:
- faster
- no risk of exceeding available temp memory
- no VC7-specific hack
so if you're happy to implement that it would be hugely appreciated.

Regards,
Eric