Re: [pspell] c-API question

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Troels Arvin wrote:

> I plan to add pspell support to PHP 4, in stead of PHP 4's aspell-module
> which doesn't work with newer versions of aspell.
> 
> However, I'm still not that familiar with the pspell c-API, so I'll be
> happy if someone looks over the code pasted below to see if I'm using
> the API in a proper way. Note the questions included as comments in the
> code.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> /Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark
> 
> 
> 
> /*
>     spellcheck.c
> 
>     Is compiled by entering
>     gcc -Wall -o spellcheck -lpspell spellcheck.c

You should use libtool to compile.  On solaris this WILL NOT work as
Solaris requires you to list out every single library.

> 
> */
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "/usr/local/include/pspell/pspell.h"
> 
> int main()
> {
>     PspellConfig * pcon;
>     PspellCanHaveError * perr;
>     PspellManager * pman;
>     PspellStringEmulation * psemu;
>     const PspellWordList * wlist;
> 
>     char myWord[20]="dentistt";
>     char myLang[10]="en-US";
> 
>     int result;
> 
>     printf("myWord is `%s`; myLang is `%s`\n",myWord,myLang);
> 
>     pcon=new_pspell_config();
>     pspell_config_replace(pcon, "language-tag",myLang);
> 
>     perr=new_pspell_manager(pcon);

You should check for an error here before you convert.

>     pman=to_pspell_manager(perr);
> 
>     result = pspell_manager_check(pman,myWord);
> 
>     if (result)
>     {
>         printf("The word '%s' is OK\n",myWord);
>     } else {
>         printf("The word '%s' is misspelled\n",myWord);
>         wlist = pspell_manager_suggest(pman,myWord);
> 
>         if (!pspell_word_list_empty(wlist))
>         {
>             printf("List of suggestions:\n");
> 
>             psemu = pspell_word_list_elements(wlist);
> 
>             while (!pspell_string_emulation_at_end(psemu))
>             {
>                 printf
>                 (
>                     "\t%s\n",
>                     pspell_string_emulation_next(psemu)
>                 );
>             }
> 
>             delete_pspell_string_emulation(psemu);
>         }
> 
> /*
>         delete_pspell_wordlist(wlist);        // Do I need to somehow 
>                                               // destroy the wordlist?
> */

No, and you should not.  I will try to make that clearer.

> 
> 
> /*
>         delete_pspell_manager(pman);        // If I do this, the 
>                                             // program will core-dump.
>                                             // Not needed?
> */

Try removing the delete_pspell_wordlist(wlist) and see what happens?

> 
>         delete_pspell_can_have_error(perr);

Don't do this.  pman == perr.

>         delete_pspell_config(pcon);
>     }
> 
>     return(0);
> }

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Kevin Atkinson
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