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On 2008-09-27, Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> No matter how many fields are added though, it never will be nice. How
> well would using just a single void *data work instead?
>
> It would be allocated whenever an event is emitted - but would it be
> clear to users where to free it? For example, what if the event is never
> received, or what if to event queues are receiving the events?
>
> I think we should make sure the above works, if it does not right now.
> It's the only way I can see this useful - if necessary, we might have to
> provide a callback pointer with a "cleanup_user_event" method which is
> passed the event when it goes out of servrice or something, so user code
> can free the data poiner there. (But maybe that's already working..
> didn't look too close yet and the example apparently just casts an int
> to a pointer.)
It doesn't have any support for freeing user data in user events.
Not sure what to do about it.
Peter