On Friday, July 29, 2011 15:26 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, July 29, 2011 15:00 CEST, David Chisnall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 29 Jul 2011, at 13:51, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > > > > I found this documentation here: > > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSData_Class/Reference/Reference.html > > > Initializes a newly allocated data object by adding to it length bytes of > > > data from the buffer bytes. > > > > > > but it doesn't state that a subclass should implement it??? > > > > > > SkyDecodeWrapperData is a subclass of NSData, so I should implement that > > > method there? > > > > I think this is a GNUstep bug. The default implementation o > > initWithBytesNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone: should probably be releasing self > > and returning a new instance of the class that does support this > > initialiser (as happens in the placeholder data class). >
While fiddling around there, I found that NSDataMalloc implements initWithBytesNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone:, and I looked at it how it is done there, and implemented it similarly in OGos SkyDecodeWrapperData, which now works like a charm ;) thanks, Sebastian _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
