> > On 30 Apr 2008, at 12:35, Trygve Inda wrote: > >> So why the need for + dataWithBytesNoCopy:length:freeWhenDone: ? >> >> It would seem that if freeWhenDone is YES, these are identical calls? > > Because sometimes you might want to use NO. i.e maybe its a non- > malloced buffer that you want to treat as NSData, or maybe just a > malloced buffer that you need to pass to some method that expects an > NSData, but you don't want to have to duplicate the entire buffer.
I guess the freeWhenDone is a newer call then, otherwise it'd make more sense to only have the freeWhenDone variant. Thanks, Trygve _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
