Creating ByteArrays in C primitives

[Brian Rice]

On Oct 20, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote:

> Does the fact that result being declared of type ByteArray pointer,
> will make it throw an error if buffer is not word-aligned? (Slate 
> pointers
> being 31 bits, they should not be used with pointers with 1 at bit0).

I don't know. I can tell you that Slate will crash hard if you try to 
make an object that is not word-aligned.

> Also, does this have been included in CVS? If so, in which file?

It's in src/mobius/vm/base/object.slate next to the other method for 
making byte arrays (one suitable only for pidgin).

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Lendvai Attila" <Attila.Lendvai at netvisor.hu>
> 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.
>
>
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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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