Nicholas -- I'd be happy with that...
Regards, -- Gregor On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:12, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > > The next change is a change to the IO layer. In include/parrot/io.h > > we change struct _ParrotIOLayerAPI to have two versions of C string > > writing: > > > > INTVAL (*PutSc)(theINTERP, ParrotIOLayer * l, /* C-style string put > > */ > > ParrotIO * io, const char * s); > > INTVAL (*PutSl)(theINTERP, ParrotIOLayer * l, /* Explicit length > > string put */ > > ParrotIO * io, const char * s, INTVAL len); > > > > and chase down and fix all the things this breaks. The reason is we > > might need to output a buffer of stuff that contains an interior zero > > byte, which would throw off the old way of doing things. > > Instead could we just ditch the C-style put? (and make the layer table > one pointer smaller) > > Anyone who wants to put a \0 terminated string can do the strlen > themselves. (Or we could provide a helpful macro) > > Nicholas Clark -- Gregor Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/
