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

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Take a look at Integer class>>_new:neg: ... the implication is that you
might need to store "digits" instead of bytes ....

Dale


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Martin McClure <
> martin.mcclure at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>>     more complicated.
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>>> Even if they would be desired later, right now, I am fine with a "No"
>>> answer.
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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:
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> LargeInteger _basicNew: 10
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> But it fails.
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> Thanks,
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