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- From: scott@mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: SetHandleSize and SetPtrSize
- Message-ID: <scott.711823253@mcl>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:40:53 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.160240.15039@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> <149qa1INN8qa@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In <149qa1INN8qa@agate.berkeley.edu> ewylie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Elizabeth Wylie) writes:
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- >>If I reduce the size of a handle/pointer using SetHandleSize or
- >>SetPtrSize, do the contents of the handle/pointer get preserved
- >>up to the size of my new handle/pointer.
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- >Yes.
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- >Not a very difficult thing to verify...
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- >-E. Wylie
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-
- Oh? Maybe the one time you checked the contents were intact, but
- t doesn't mean that EVERY time you call Set*Size() this is the case.
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- Though personally I would have asked a friend or look at some source
- code before filling the net with this. At the worst case, I would
- have looked back two weeks and read three separate poeple asking
- this question, and it being answered the same way every time.
-
- - Scott
-
- (I liked your answer better than mine. You take the next one).
-