Re[2]: Question about STRINGs...

Lothar Scholz <[email protected]> Tue, 31 May 2005 15:41:42 +0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.smalleiffel
Organization	Scriptolutions
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Hello JosÃ©,

Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 3:20:40 PM, you wrote:

>> Is there any possibility to add a creation routine to STRING such as
>>
>>     copy_external_sequence(ptr : POINTER;size : INTEGER)
>>
>>
>> or something so one can copy some arbitrary data pointed to by 'ptr' in
>> an efficient way (by having it use bcopy/memcpy/etc.)?
>>

Your code is the usual workaround, but i would also highly recommend that
we add this feature to the string class. I patched my SmallEiffel
STRING.e source code for this.

It is a very necessary function. No matter what Dominique says.

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 Lothar                            mailto:[email protected]