Creating ByteArrays in C primitives

[Brian Rice]

I have no objection.

On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Lendvai Attila wrote:

>
> hi!
>
> I've got a pidgin function:
>
> oh@(ObjectHeap pointer) newByteArrayFrom: buffer sized: bytes
> "Creates a new slate ByteArray object and initializes from the given
> buffer."
> [| result!(ByteArray pointer) buffer!(Byte pointer) |
>   result: (oh newByteArray: ByteArrayProto sized: bytes)!(ByteArray
> pointer) cast.
>   buffer copyBytes: bytes into: (result elements)!(Byte pointer).
>   result
> ]!(ByteArray pointer) inline export.
>
> that turns into:
>
> static struct ByteArray * PSObjectHeap_newByteArrayFrom_sized_(struct
> ObjectHeap * oh, Byte * buffer, unsigned long int bytes);
>
> and creates a Slate ByteArray object.
>
> Be warned: In the VM code and in the pidgin doc "ByteArray" is used for
> two things: one is a raw array of bytes in the memory, and one is a
> full-featured Slate ByteArray object. This method created the Slate
> object ByteArray.
>
> water, novo, may I check it in?
>
> - 101
>
>
--
Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/
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