[erlang-questions] erlang atom data length is not enough

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

In the Erlang documentation, 9.2 System limits, it is written that the
maximum number of characters in an atom is 255.
What are you sending from Erlang?


bengt

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:52 +0530, prasantha kumara wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> i have sent a data steam which is 2048byte long to the c node from the
> erlang node.
> i want to process them in the c node.to do that i cast it to ta erl
> atom using ERL_ATOM_PTR().becouse i suppose to get he byte by byte
> using a c pointer.
> 
> the code i have writtenis as follows
> 
> argp = erl_element(2, tuplep);
> unsigned char* pp;
> pp=ERL_ATOM_PTR(argp);
> int i;
> for(i=0;i<10;i++){     
> pp=a[0];
> printf(" %d  ",*(pp+i));
> }
> but it can prints only 255 bytes from the byte stream .can any body
> help me get the total byte steam.
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