[Biococoa-dev] NSMutableData vs malloc

Charles Parnot charles.parnot at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 19:13:30 EDT 2005


Yes, char, no unichar. I am not sure how unichar got there in the  
first place. Probably from NSString.

I hereby accept you being a volunteer...

charles

On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:55 PM, John Timmer wrote:

>>
>> On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:15 PM, John Timmer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm all for NSData, since I know how to use that ;).  Next  
>>> question -
>>> we're
>>> already using unichar's, which are 2 bytes - is that what we  
>>> intend to
>>> stuff
>>> in the data, or should we think of recasting to unsigned chars?  The
>>> second
>>> would probably greatly increase the efficiency of the code and  
>>> make a
>>> lot
>>> more C code available to us, but we'd need to revamp a bunch of the
>>> classes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> My preference would be to use the (unsigned) chars.
>>
>
> Okay, that's three of us in agreement now.  Is it time to do a  
> project wide
> search for unichar and change it to unsigned char?  If so, I'll  
> volunteer.
>
> JT
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