Re: Stdio.Buffer, need a way to revisit old positions in the output

Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) importm?te f?r mailinglistan wrote:
>By the way, you can already do this:

>int i = sizeof(buffer);
>buffer->add_padding(4);
>...
>int l = sizeof(buffer)-i;
>buffer[i] = l>>24;
>buffer[i+1] = l>>16;
>buffer[i+2] = l>>8;
>buffer[i+3] = l>>8;

Yes, well, apart from the fact that you can't use the add_int32(), there
is another difficulty here: the sizeof() and the [] operators are relative
to the start of the buffer.  The start is a moving target however, since
some of it might have been flushed to the descriptor already.

I'll rethink the deluxe-solution once more.  If I can't come up with something
which easy to implement, I'll use my original proposal first, but I'll
document it as being not-for-production use; so that if someone implements
it the "right" way, I'll fix the driver to the new methods.
-- 
Stephen.