Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-21 Thread Tom Bernard
: 6 > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:53:35 -0700 > From: Greg Guerin > Subject: Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Tom Bernard wrote: > >> NSData *anNSDecimalAsData = [NSData dataWithBytes

Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-20 Thread Gary L. Wade
On 11/20/2009 10:49 AM, "Jens Alfke" wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Greg Guerin wrote: > >> The representation stored in the NSData may be endian-sensitive. If >> the NSDictionary contents might cross architectures, that could be >> problematic. > > s/may be/is/ > s/could be/will be/

Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-20 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 20, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Greg Guerin wrote: The representation stored in the NSData may be endian-sensitive. If the NSDictionary contents might cross architectures, that could be problematic. s/may be/is/ s/could be/will be/ NSDecimal is a struct containing multi-byte integers. It is

Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-20 Thread Greg Guerin
Tom Bernard wrote: NSData *anNSDecimalAsData = [NSData dataWithBytes:&anNSDecimal length:sizeof(NSDecimal)]; gives you an NSData object suitable for an NSDictionary without having to muck around with NSDecimal's private fields. The representation stored in the NSData may be endian-sensiti

Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-20 Thread Roland King
ou an NSData object suitable for an NSDictionary without having to > muck around with NSDecimal's private fields. > > > > ++ Tom > > Tom Bernard > tombern...@bersearch.com > > > > >> --__--__-- >> >> Message: 11 >> Date: Tue, 29 O

Re: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal

2009-11-20 Thread Tom Bernard
29 Oct 2002 12:37:35 -0600 > Subject: extracting the mantissa for a NSDecimal > From: Olivier <...> > To: cocoa apple <...> > > i'm trying to save an NSDecimal in a dictionary. > > I study the NSDecimal structure and decided that all i really need to >