Hi John-Mark,

The only reason I would have been shy of malloc() – as well as the fact that the fixed-length is how it was written in browser_window_go_post() – would be that stack allocation is normally much faster, plus it's, I suppose, a local variable, so the stack memory taken is quickly released? Though I'm not sure how that interacts with the const definition in void gui_window_set_url(struct gui_window *_g, const char *url); [gtk_scaffolding.c 1418] memory allocation in C not being the easiest job to get just right :-)

As it's currently a tiny amount of memory, the RISC OS limit you referred to may be the most important factor, unless you really want it changed for the sake of tidiness

Best
Mark

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John-Mark Bell - jmb@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 19:24 +0200, netsurf.list.markie1@dfgh.net wrote:

  
John-Mark Bell - jmb@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
    
+               browser_window_update(bw);
    
        
Can you explain why this is needed? You mentioned something about the
first tab being odd.
  
      
It is, the LHS of the page draws, not the RHS; though that
browser_window_update() call has no effect, even putting it ahead of
the conditional;
    

Ok. That's something else entirely. I believe that Mike Lester has a fix
for that. Mike?

  
here's the patch re-improved, slimmed down
    

Thanks. Modulo the fixed-size buffer, that looks fine. I suspect the
solution to the fixed buffer is buf = malloc(strlen(url) +
strlen(frag_id) + <length of separators + \0>);


J.