01-06-2009
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Originally Posted by
aaronwong
I just want to know the advantages and disadvantages of those two methods by this simple example... actually, in practice, especially in memory management application for a special or embedded system, it is necessary to implement our own function to malloc a block of memory. Then the case raises.
Like everyone else I too prefer the second method one over the first as it is simpler, easier to understand and uses much less storage in the stack segment. Also I don't see the need for a function call just to malloc a chunk of memory. For an embedded system where resources are scarce you are better off mallocing that block of memory in main.
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NAME
CURLOPT_READDATA - custom pointer passed to the read callback
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_READDATA, void *pointer);
DESCRIPTION
Data pointer to pass to the file read function. If you use the CURLOPT_READFUNCTION(3) option, this is the pointer you'll get as input in
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