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Arun C Murthy commented on AVRO-47:
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The real problem is that C++ has no equivalent of java's 'byte' data-type...
Also, we are up against the old C habit of using char[] to represent byte[].
This, plus the fact that C++ programmers might mistake unit8_t in the manner
that Chris point us leads me to think void* is the least of the available evils.
> Byte sequence to be represented as void*
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> Key: AVRO-47
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-47
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: c++
> Reporter: Arvind Jayaprakash
> Attachments: AVRO-47
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> The current function prototype for serializin bytes is as follows:
> void putBytes(const uint8_t *val, size_t size)
> This is better written as
> void putBytes(const void *val, size_t size)
> Using void* in favour of an int based data type frees us from unnecessary
> casting opaque bytes from arbitrary stuctures/classes into "integer". This is
> consistent with say a function like memcpy()
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