Re: SSTRDUP & memory management; file i/o tests and related

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "WS" == William S Shu <address@hidden> writes:

WS> I do not know how to deAllocate any memory claimed by SSTRDUP.

SFREEBLOCK, which is a macro that sends the scratchZone the free: method
with the block as an argument.

WS> On a separate note, how does one detect/test for end-of-line,
WS> end-of-file, read error, etc., after creating one with, say,
WS> f = [InFile create: [self getZone] withName: buf];

The various getWhatever methods in InFile have poor error handling
properties, they just return 0 if an input failed or 1 if it was successful.
It has been this way for a long time, and existing apps depend on
these poor properties. 

I urge you not to use this class and suggest using Archiver for data
handling.  If it isn't clear how to do that, describe your problem and
I'll describe the solution.  

If for some reason you don't want to do that, I suggest using stdio
directly.  In my opinion, InFile is worse than nothing.


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