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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/15] Add base64 encoder/decoder


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/15] Add base64 encoder/decoder
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:48:43 +0300
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On 05/23/2010 10:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
+/*
+ * Convert string 'src' of length 'srclen' from base64 to binary form,
+ * saving the result in 'dest'. The size of the destination buffer must be at
+ * least srclen * 3 / 4.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -1 on conversion error.
+ */
+int base64_decode(const char *src, size_t srclen, void *dest)
I think dest should be char *, like all the functions where dest is passed to.
The output may but need not be a string, it's binary data. And to avoid
needless warnings about signedness mismatches if unsigned char or
uint8_t buffers are passed, I chose void *.

I think qemu is pretty consistent in using uint8_t for binary, and void * is a little dangerous as it allows passing any kind of data (anything above a byte is subject to endianness issues for example).

But I don't feel strongly about this.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function




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