Re: Corrupted NSMutableString
Re: Corrupted NSMutableString
- Subject: Re: Corrupted NSMutableString
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 15:29:04 +0100
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 01:05 pm, Mike Kluev wrote:
On 03/08/2003 14:51, Alastair J.Houghton wrote:
<rant>
IMHO it isn't worth fussing about the possibility of char and byte
being anything other than 8 bits;
Perhaps. If you said "char is usually 1 byte and byte is usually
8 bits" I wouldn't "fuss". But then, *usually* "short" is indeed two
bytes - that was what you were fussing about
Actually it wasn't. I was fussing about the fact that Matthew had
written that "C *defines* short integers as being two bytes", which it
doesn't. C doesn't define anything that isn't written in the C spec.
It is not only about hardware.
It is unless you're being silly :-) The hardware has to provide byte
addressability, which for all practical intents and purposes means that
it gets to define the size of byte (remember, C is flexible about it,
whereas hardware generally can't be changed easily).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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