in reply to Re^7: Passing a bytestring from Perl to Inline::C as a 2d array
in thread Passing a bytestring from Perl to Inline::C as a 2d array

This should initialize $buf ... my $buf = (0) x ( $x_dimension x $y_dimension);

No. It doesn't! Not even close.

$x_dimension = 5; $y_dimension = 4; $buf = (0) x ( $x_dimension x $y_dimension); print length( $buf ), "'$buf'";; 5555 '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 +000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 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And the rest of your post is equally meaningless.


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