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From: petree@gaigan.cs.utexas.edu (Mitch Petree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XFetchName's name argument
Message-ID: <10340@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 17:58:19 GMT
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Keywords: XFetchName, pointer to string

I am having trouble using XFetchName.
I am using X10.4, in which XFetchName is declared (in my manual):

Status XFetchName (w,name)
	Window w;
	char  **name;	/* RETURN */

I use XStoreName with no problem, but when I try to XFetchName, I get a core
dump.  I tried changing the declaraction of name to  "char *name[];" and I
didn't get a core dump, but there was nothing in name.

I know the first declaration is for name to be a pointer to a string (a
pointer to a pointer to a char), so when I start out, name is nil.  
XFetchName should set name to be the pointer, but why would it reference name?
Maybe there's something I don't know about C pointers...
	HELP!	-mitch petree (petree@gaigan.cs.utexas.edu)