On 2007-05-09 11:38:34 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > It's kind of important to distinguish between the hex
> > representation and the octet representation, because your code
> > will not work at all if you use the wrong one. And "unsigned char
> > *" or "unsigned char[20]" is always the octets; the hex is always
> > "char *". Primarily mentioning the one that is more intuitive but
> > less frequently used doesn't help with understanding the actual
> > code.
>
> That's a really good idea, to point out that "unsigned char *"
> refers to octets, while "char *" refers to the ASCII representation.
> I will add this, together with a simple example (the initial
> commit).
That'll address my complaint nicely, I believe. It was the confusion
between these two formats that I was trying to get at.
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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
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