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authordef <dennis@felsin9.de>2015-02-18 21:13:01 +0100
committerdef <dennis@felsin9.de>2015-02-18 21:13:01 +0100
commitecfaab68f176651e2b836423cdc5682046bbd409 (patch)
treee591ee144ac050ddb6cd1844d073e9fcf7d57076 /lib/system/sysio.nim
parent358d4b958c46fdc740be647ee27ecdbba15597f3 (diff)
downloadNim-ecfaab68f176651e2b836423cdc5682046bbd409.tar.gz
Make readBytes and writeBytes work with uint8
So far only openarray[int8] worked. Now it's openarray[int8|uint8]. This
should make sense, since uint8 is comfortable to represent a byte
(0-255) and there is already type byte* = uint8 in system.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/system/sysio.nim')
-rw-r--r--lib/system/sysio.nim4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system/sysio.nim b/lib/system/sysio.nim
index aed17de80..5d68d112e 100644
--- a/lib/system/sysio.nim
+++ b/lib/system/sysio.nim
@@ -246,14 +246,14 @@ proc fwrite(buf: pointer, size, n: int, f: File): int {.
 proc readBuffer(f: File, buffer: pointer, len: int): int =
   result = fread(buffer, 1, len, f)
 
-proc readBytes(f: File, a: var openArray[int8], start, len: int): int =
+proc readBytes(f: File, a: var openArray[int8|uint8], start, len: int): int =
   result = readBuffer(f, addr(a[start]), len)
 
 proc readChars(f: File, a: var openArray[char], start, len: int): int =
   result = readBuffer(f, addr(a[start]), len)
 
 {.push stackTrace:off, profiler:off.}
-proc writeBytes(f: File, a: openArray[int8], start, len: int): int =
+proc writeBytes(f: File, a: openArray[int8|uint8], start, len: int): int =
   var x = cast[ptr array[0..1000_000_000, int8]](a)
   result = writeBuffer(f, addr(x[start]), len)
 proc writeChars(f: File, a: openArray[char], start, len: int): int =