Re: data access functions

Jean-Pierre Prost (jpprost@watson.ibm.com)
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:53:25 -0400

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Rajeev writes:
But the foll. must be specified carefully:
1. for each data access call, type signature in memory must match type
signature in file.
2. what happens if the user requests an amount of data that is not an
integral multiple of filetype?

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For 2., it think one should state something similar to:

A program using a buftype and count that results in a type signature that
does not match the type signature of mutiple contiguous instances of the
filetype of the current view is erroneous. High quality implementations may
detect such occurrence and return an error.

Jean-Pierre

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