Re: udigits_to_I

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

Sam wrote:
> >> disadvantages: lack of modularity (tight coupling with the stream
> >> world)
> >
> > Yes, this could be improved.
>
> please do.

Done. The new functions are also exported through genclisph.d. You can
use them in the modules.

> > There probably need to be two variants of this function, one taking an
> > "const uintB* buffer", the other one taking an "object buffer" (a
> > simple-array of rank 1 and element-type (unsigned-byte 8)).
> > I would call these functions LEbytes_to_I and LEbytes_vector_to_I
> > instead of bitbuff_to_I.
>
> this need for two functions is the reason why the `maygc' property of
> bitbuff_to_I() is so bad (see above ***)

But the two functions actually share 99% of their code.

Bruno