[erlang-questions] RE: R14 vs R13 binary handling in driver_outputv

Tim Watson watson.timothy@REDACTED
Thu Mar 10 11:44:56 CET 2011


On 10 March 2011 10:14, Tim Watson <watson.timothy@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 9 March 2011 22:53, Koener Antoine <antoine.koener@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Not a real answer but it's more about secure programming:
>> why do you use 'signed' integer for offset and size ?
>>
>> Is offset going to be negative or even size ?
>
> Thanks for pointing it out - I hadn't thought about it properly.
> Fixing it isn't going to fix my problem with R14 - clearly this isn't
> the right way to share a binary between the driver and the runtime.
> Still I'll go and refactor the code to use unsigned numbers while I'm
> waiting.
>

Fixed. Now can anyone suggest a better way of consuming the binary in
driver_outputv?


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