Hi,
2010/6/18 Dan Roberts <[email protected]>:
> Hey Everybody,
> It seems no one's in #pypy at the moment, so I figured I'd post to the
> mailing list for non-realtime questioning. I wrote my implementation of
> PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16() which is correct as best I can tell (and it
> passes its test, but I wrote the test too :-) ).
> The code is here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/226753/ and its test is
> here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/226752/ . I have a few questions, like
> I said, the test passes, but I'm unsure of some of the code I've
> written. There are XXX and FIXME and other comments throughout the
> code, those represent places where I'm unsure.
> In the test code, line 6 I'm not sure if that malloc() is correct,
> and even if it is, would it have been better (and also valid) to
> lltype.malloc(lltype.Signed, ...) ? Then from line 7 to 12 I assign
> "native" integers to the malloc-ed memory, is this done correctly? ex.
> pendian[0] = -1 or should it be pendian[0] = rffi.cast(lltype.Signed,
> -1) ?
> In the implementation, I'm fairly certain I've marked everything with
> FIXME or XXX, so there's not much more to say about that... I'd really
> appreciate anyone who's willing to take a look.
All this looks quite good, except for the second cast - it should be
pbyteorder[0] = rffi.cast(rffi.INT, byteorder)
And I suggest to add another test: automatic detection of byte order
when a Byte Order Mark is present.
--
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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