Re: Towards a cleaner build: arc-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

There's one additional use of string-as-multibyte in arc-mode that I
didn't notice before:

(defun archive-l-e (str &optional len)
  "Convert little endian string/vector STR to integer.
Alternatively, STR may be a buffer position in the current buffer
in which case a second argument, length LEN, should be supplied."
  (if (stringp str)
      (setq len (length str))
    (setq str (buffer-substring str (+ str len))))
  (setq str (string-as-unibyte str))
  (let ((result 0)
        (i 0))
    (while (< i len)
      (setq i (1+ i)
            result (+ (ash result 8)
                      (aref str (- len i)))))
    result))

Hm...  These buffers are multibyte, but do not contain any characters,
just ASCII and stuff from the "byte plane"...

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