Re: proper way to create a GString object from an unsigned char *

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:36:28PM -0700, Adam Monsen wrote:
> What's the proper way to create a GString object from an unsigned char*?
>
> I ask because I'm using libxml, and libxml has a xmlChar type (which
> is an unsigned char). If I make an xmlChar* = "Hello World", how
> should I make this into a GString?
>
> Is it wrong to just cast xmlChar* to char*, even though xmlChar is an
> unsigned char?

It's OK to cast unsigned char* to signed char* and vice
versa -- if you are working with strings, that is.  If you
were doing arithmetics with the characters (i.e. using them
as small integers), then it could be different.

Yeti


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