X-Git-Url: http://andersk.mit.edu/gitweb/libyaml.git/blobdiff_plain/b3043c486c98b6f0be2ac532552b19f0e0f0099b..2a02dfd2625480af0f2b48664c46dab20ea799da:/src/api.c

diff --git a/src/api.c b/src/api.c
index dc7611d..83ca720 100644
--- a/src/api.c
+++ b/src/api.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ yaml_alias_event_initialize(yaml_event_t *event, yaml_char_t *anchor)
 YAML_DECLARE(int)
 yaml_scalar_event_initialize(yaml_event_t *event,
         yaml_char_t *anchor, yaml_char_t *tag,
-        yaml_char_t *value, size_t length,
+        yaml_char_t *value, int length,
         int plain_implicit, int quoted_implicit,
         yaml_scalar_style_t style)
 {
@@ -823,7 +823,6 @@ yaml_scalar_event_initialize(yaml_event_t *event,
     assert(event);      /* Non-NULL event object is expected. */
     assert(value);      /* Non-NULL anchor is expected. */
 
-
     if (anchor) {
         if (!yaml_check_utf8(anchor, strlen((char *)anchor))) goto error;
         anchor_copy = yaml_strdup(anchor);
@@ -836,6 +835,10 @@ yaml_scalar_event_initialize(yaml_event_t *event,
         if (!tag_copy) goto error;
     }
 
+    if (length < 0) {
+        length = strlen((char *)value);
+    }
+
     if (!yaml_check_utf8(value, length)) goto error;
     value_copy = yaml_malloc(length+1);
     if (!value_copy) goto error;