From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Unchecked conversion of arrays?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:34:06 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-05-14T17:34:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c82vue$ecp$3@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ad0dd8a.0405140239.1411a24d@posting.google.com
Wojtek Narczynski <wojtek@power.com.pl> wrote:
:> I'm thinking Unchecked Conversion won't be reliable, because
:> if for example the byte array is packed and Wide String is not, then (on
:> a 32-bit machine) I'll get two bytes of garbage between every two bytes
:> of character data.
: Unchecked_Conversion will check sizes for you, so I don't think you
: need to worry about garbage.
Maybe this article is helpful here:
http://www.adapower.com/lang/accessmem.html
: You do need to remember about endian-ness, though.
-- Georg
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 22:51 Unchecked conversion of arrays? Björn Persson
2004-05-14 10:39 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-05-14 17:34 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2004-05-15 1:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-15 10:20 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-16 19:44 ` Nick Roberts
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