Function writeUnsignedFixed [src]

This is an "advanced" function. It allows one to use a fixed amount of memory to store a ULEB128. This defeats the entire purpose of using this data encoding; it will no longer use fewer bytes to store smaller numbers. The advantage of using a fixed width is that it makes fields have a predictable size and so depending on the use case this tradeoff can be worthwhile. An example use case of this is in emitting DWARF info where one wants to make a ULEB128 field "relocatable", meaning that it becomes possible to later go back and patch the number to be a different value without shifting all the following code.

Prototype

pub fn writeUnsignedFixed(comptime l: usize, ptr: *[l]u8, int: std.meta.Int(.unsigned, l * 7)) void

Parameters

l: usizeptr: *[l]u8int: std.meta.Int(.unsigned, l * 7)

Example

 test writeUnsignedFixed {
    {
        var buf: [4]u8 = undefined;
        writeUnsignedFixed(4, &buf, 0);
        try testing.expect((try test_read_uleb128(u64, &buf)) == 0);
    }
    {
        var buf: [4]u8 = undefined;
        writeUnsignedFixed(4, &buf, 1);
        try testing.expect((try test_read_uleb128(u64, &buf)) == 1);
    }
    {
        var buf: [4]u8 = undefined;
        writeUnsignedFixed(4, &buf, 1000);
        try testing.expect((try test_read_uleb128(u64, &buf)) == 1000);
    }
    {
        var buf: [4]u8 = undefined;
        writeUnsignedFixed(4, &buf, 10000000);
        try testing.expect((try test_read_uleb128(u64, &buf)) == 10000000);
    }
}

Source

  pub fn writeUnsignedFixed(comptime l: usize, ptr: *[l]u8, int: std.meta.Int(.unsigned, l * 7)) void {
    writeUnsignedExtended(ptr, int);
}  