Re: udigits_to_I

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam wrote:
> > For the implementation of udigits_to_I:
> > Note that you cannot always interpret an array of type uint8[] as an
> > array of type uintD[]: The number of elements may not be a multiple
> > of sizeof(uintD)/sizeof(uint8) (what do you want to do with the last few
> > bytes in that case?),
>
> zero them out? (hmm, this implies little-endian).
>
> > and the alignment of the memory may not be a multiple of
> > alignof(uintD).
>
> crash? :-(

Yes, likely. - But before talking about the implementation of an unclear
function, can you clarify what the function _should_ do? What does the
berkeley-db module expect from it?

Bruno