The first one of those is ok - as long as you remember to free databuffer 
later. The second is wrong, the argument to getBytes:range: has to be an 
allocated buffer of size at least the length of the range you pass in. That 
second one is just copying data to a random place in memory, probably zero. 

On 26 May, 2014, at 9:44 pm, Pax <[email protected]> wrote:

> Apologies - the obvious important detail, and I missed it out entirely.  I 
> have tried both of the following with the same result:
> 
>   unsigned char* databuffer = (unsigned char*)malloc(datasize);
>   [datastream getBytes:&databuffer range:NSMakeRange(positionCounter, 
> datasize)]; // Packet content
> 
> and 
> 
>   unsigned char* bytes;
>   [datastream getBytes:&bytes range:NSMakeRange(positionCounter, datasize)]; 
> // Packet content
> 
> Either way, I get the same result.
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 May 2014, at 14:16, Uli Kusterer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 26 May 2014, at 06:02, Pax <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This is my snippet of code:
>>>                  [datastream getBytes:&bytes 
>>> range:NSMakeRange(positionCounter, datasize)]; // Length of packet content
>>>                  positionCounter+= datasize;
>> 
>> What is bytes declared as, and what do you initialize it to?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- Uli Kusterer
>> “The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...”
>> http://zathras.de
>> 
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