Re: Deleting data from NSMutableData
Re: Deleting data from NSMutableData
- Subject: Re: Deleting data from NSMutableData
- From: Jim Correia <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:15:19 -0400
On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:33 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Mar 20, 2007, at 22:25, Andy Lee wrote:
On Mar 21, 2007, at 12:04 AM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
I had thought about seeing what I could crash with using
replaceBytesInRange:withBytes:length: and passing it a NULL, but
that seems hackish and unstable at best.
I was going to suggest a combination of -mutableBytes, strncpy(),
and -setLength, but this method sounds like exactly what you
need. I haven't tested all boundary cases, but it seems to work.
I don't see any reason not to use it.
Since NSMutableData is toll-free bridged with CFMutableData, why
not use CFDataDeleteBytes()? That should always do the right thing.
Agreed.
If you want to use -replaceBytesInRange:withBytes:length: passing
NULL for bytes and 0 for length you are safe at least on 10.4.8 since
that is what CFDataDeleteBytes does:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.x86/CF-368.27/
Collections.subproj/CFData.c
If you want to be paranoid or conservative, you may want to continue
using CFDataDeleteBytes until such time as the documentation
sanctions NULL, 0 as a valid input for -
replaceBytesInRange:withBytes:length:.
(DOC request filed as <rdar://problem/5077644>.)
Jim
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