Hi Jakob,

aha! Thanks for the "pointer." :-) *scnr*

Best,
Marcel
Am 24.04.2021 14:23:42 schrieb Jakob Reschke <jakres+squeak at gmail.com>:

<commits at source.squeak.org [mailto:commits at source.squeak.org]> schrieb am Di., 20. Apr. 2021

Item was changed:
+ ----- Method: ExternalData>>fromCStrings (in category 'converting - support') -----
- ----- Method: ExternalData>>fromCStrings (in category 'converting') -----
  fromCStrings
        "Assume that the receiver represents a set of C strings and is teerminated by a empty string and convert it to a Smalltalk ordered collection of strings"

        | stream index char strings str |
        type isPointerType ifFalse: [self error: 'External object is not a pointer type.'].
+       self flag: #bogus. "mt: This format seems to be rather specific to some library. There would normally be pointers to pointers for such a structure. Or does the C standard mention such a format somehow? 'abcd\0efg\0hijklmnopq\0rstuvwxyz\0\0' ??? "
        strings := OrderedCollection new.
        index := 1.
        [
                stream := WriteStream on: String new.
                [(char := handle unsignedCharAt: index) = 0 asCharacter]
                        whileFalse: [
                                stream nextPut: char.
                                index := index + 1
                        ].
                str := stream contents.
                strings addLast: str.
                str size = 0
        ] whileFalse.
        ^strings!


Seems to be an API specific thing:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110511-00/?p=10693 [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110511-00/?p=10693]


https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091008-00/?p=16443 [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091008-00/?p=16443]

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