Is there a "global" equivalent of memScoped?

# kotlin-native

[napperley]

Is there a "global" equivalent of memScoped?

[serebit]

What do you mean?

[serebit]

memScoped is used to clean up memory that is manually allocated once it's done being used. A "global" equivalent wouldn't be able to do that

[napperley]

Have a String variable which has been moved from a function to a Object, which needs to be accessible beyond the lifetime of a C function call.

[serebit]

Maybe try converting it to a KString?

[napperley]

Got the String variable mixed up with the repo (a val of type CPointer<GIRepository>). The GIR library is indicating that repo is null even though it isn't (via a warning message).

[napperley]

Turns out that GObject namespaces are case sensitive, oops 😆. Fixed the use of case in the String and the message has disappeared.

[olonho]

Yes, nativeHeap, see https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/INTEROP.md#memory-allocation