Strange things like this can happen if someone inadvertently writes
a new string into an existing symbol... i.e., never do this:
strcat(sym->s_name, "cat").
MAybe there was already a symbol somewhere else whose name is "cat" and
then you'll have 2 symbols with teh same name but different addresses.
(I've seen people do this, in various ways, before).
cheers
Miller
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 03:22:19AM -0400, Jaime E Oliver wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to compare two symbols, one incoming in a list into an external
> and the other one stored internally in the external.
>
> It compiles fine, but I don't get a match.
>
> c code is below. Ideas on what I'm missing?
>
> J
>
>
> void testtext_input(t_testtext *x, t_symbol *selector, int argcount, t_atom
> *argvec) {
> int i;
> const t_symbol *storedsymbol = gensym("mysymbol");
> for (i = 0; i < argcount; i++) {
> if (argvec[i].a_type == A_SYMBOL) {
> if ( argvec[i].a_w.w_symbol->s_name == storedsymbol)
> post("found match!");
> }
> }
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