Well of course memcpy work *better* versus writing a loop and doing  
it yourself.
memcpy might even be optimized for your hardware too.
Of course make sure you don't copy a few too many bytes, or bytes to  
the wrong place.

There is also the ExernalAddress class, but I've not played with  
that, I guess you could make one of those

On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2007, at 17:14 , Diman Todorov wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am currently struggling to return a string from a virtual  
>> machine primitive. The only example derived from  
>> SmarySyntaxInterpreterPlugin I was able to find in the Squeak  
>> sources is in the InternetConfigPlugin (in  
>> primitiveGetStringKeyedBy:). This Plugin instantiates a new string  
>> object and explicitly iterates over the string to copy it to  
>> squeak. Isn't there a more elegant way to return a string from a c  
>> function?
>
> You have to copy the data into a proper oop in Squeak's object  
> memory. What "more elegant way" to do that are you proposing? You  
> can write a helper function of course. But eventually it will have  
> to copy.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>

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