[Glass] How to properly write bytes objects into binary streams?

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Martin McClure <
martin.mcclure at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> On 09/03/2014 06:58 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
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>> But again, I want to go step by step.
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>>     If the answer to either of these is "yes," then things get a bit
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>> Even if they would be desired later, right now, I am fine with a "No"
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> OK, for the limited gs-to-gs case, same endianness...
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> Since in GemStone #replaceFrom:to:with: expects to be copying from a
> collection, not (for instance) a LargeInteger, the most generic way to copy
> the bytes of a byte object is probably to write a loop that uses
> #_basicSize and #_basicAt: to access the bytes.
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OK. Thanks. But then how can I create an empty instance of one of them, in
a general way, and with a certain size? I tried:

LargeInteger _basicNew: 10

But it fails.

Thanks,




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Mariano
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