On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > Myself, I like to just spin off a method or function that takes a chunk of > data and populates the fields of the struct one by one, instead of writing > the data straight onto the struct. A little more code, but you know it’s > going to work right without any surprises.
Not only that, but writing structs to file handles has caused security problems before. Consider what happens if you have a short or byte field and the compiler pads the struct. Now there's memory in your struct that never gets initialized. If you write that to a file or socket you're sending whatever might have been lurking there. Passwords, login details... _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
