2 * Routines to work around deficiencies in Core Foundation, such as the
3 * lack of a routine to convert a CFString to a C string of arbitrary
6 * Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
7 * By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
8 * Copyright 2001 Gerald Combs
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11 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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13 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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16 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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18 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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27 #ifdef HAVE_OS_X_FRAMEWORKS
29 #include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
30 #include <wsutil/cfutils.h>
33 * Convert a CFString to a UTF-8-encoded C string; the resulting string
34 * is allocated with g_malloc(). Returns NULL if the conversion fails.
37 CFString_to_C_string(CFStringRef cfstring)
42 string_len = CFStringGetMaximumSizeForEncoding(CFStringGetLength(cfstring),
43 kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
44 string = (char *)g_malloc(string_len + 1);
45 if (!CFStringGetCString(cfstring, string, string_len + 1,
46 kCFStringEncodingUTF8)) {