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Re: [PATCH][simple-md5] Enable hashing of big files
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: [PATCH][simple-md5] Enable hashing of big files |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:56:58 +0100 |
> @Felix: I think the manual can improve the wording here a bit.
> It states:
>
> "scheme-pointer is typically used to get a pointer to the raw byte
> content of bytevectors. But if you pass in a SRFI-4 vector, you will
> get a pointer to a bytevector object header (not the bytevectors's
> contents), which is almost certainly wrong. Instead, convert to a
> bytevector beforehand, or use a SRFI-4 specific type."
>
> This is a bit misleading/confusing - you can pass u8vector because
> that's equivalent to bytevector and directly encoded. Only the other
> srfi-4 types have wrapper objects.
>
Will do.
cheers,
felix