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Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book
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Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book


  • Subject: Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book
  • From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:47 +0100

+1

Richard Dobson

On 19/05/2012 04:26, Paul Davis wrote:
its hard to say this without being too inflammatory, but this habit of
using 4 byte values to store a "unique identifier" but doing so by
alternately considering it to be a 4 character array and/or a 32 bit
integer, is the kind of ugly programming that is the trademark of ...
well, lets just say "operating systems that do not share the lineage
that OS X is derived from". its incredibly disappointing to see it
continue to play a central role in an API started in the 2000's.
please, programmers who are new to this stuff: consider this sort of
thing an aberration and play this sort of game only to the extent that
an existing API requires you to.

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References: 
 >is there anything at a lower level than core audio on Mac OS? (From: Nick Porcaro <email@hidden>)
 >Re: is there anything at a lower level than core audio on Mac OS? (From: Kevin Vanwulpen <email@hidden>)
 >Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book (From: Ben <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book (From: Brian Lambert <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book (From: "Raimondas K." <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book (From: David Duncan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need help with C syntax in examples from 'Learning Core Audio' book (From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>)

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