FFI::NullPointerError: invalid memory read at address

[hamin]

Hi,

I'm running into a weird null pointer error when using a custom dictionary. Here's how I'm able to recreate it:

foo.dic

2
apple
orange

Then trying to do something like this, I get the null pointer error:

dict = FFI::Hunspell::Dictionary.new("foo.aff","foo.dic")
dict.suggest("logically") # => FFI::NullPointerError: invalid memory read at address=0x00000000000000

Any ideas to what's going on here? Btw I'm using ruby 1.9.2 on os x 10.6

[ownercoder]

if !ptr.null? stems = ptr.get_array_of_string(0,count) end

in file dictionary.rb

If your wanna patch, i can send to your by email

[hamin]

that's cool, how bout forking the project and submitting a pull request?

[postmodern]

This is interesting, that would mean there is some libhunspell error that I'm not checking for (or can't see?).

[ownercoder]

I think, this error, with ffi, because binary hunspell working through libhunsplell. This error arises, while i trying suggest or check somethin like this: "gj3984jgfldk", but while i trying check or suggest with hunspell binary this error does not arise. Maybe i'm wrong :)

[postmodern]

This should be fixed in c7cfb16c25e9c78ecaf2b006aca871e0a0847d2f where a count > 0 check was added, which should indicate the pointer has been written to.