Re: surface cdata property restricted to double or uint8

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I considered John's latest changeset to be the current situation. I
>> thought that previously uint8 data wasn't allowed at all. At least
>> that's the impression I got.
>
> Just for the record. It was supported, as double data was supported as
> well. Other data types weren't supported.
>

Aha, now I see. My apologies. Maybe the original solution was the best
compromise after all... Though it still was buggy; see the comment
about data() called on temporary expressions. That is a bad idea; you
should (almost) never do it. So let's now start from this more correct
one and talk about a 25% memory improvement :)

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