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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/pure/streams.nim')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/pure/streams.nim | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/streams.nim b/lib/pure/streams.nim index 8ae7fb3c1..56f49d7b1 100644 --- a/lib/pure/streams.nim +++ b/lib/pure/streams.nim @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ ## Other modules may provide other implementations for this standard ## stream interface. ## +## .. warning:: Due to the use of `pointer`, the `readData`, `peekData` and +## `writeData` interfaces are not available on the compile-time VM, and must +## be cast from a `ptr string` on the JS backend. However, `readDataStr` is +## available generally in place of `readData`. +## ## Basic usage ## =========== ## @@ -938,10 +943,14 @@ proc peekFloat64*(s: Stream): float64 = proc readStrPrivate(s: Stream, length: int, str: var string) = if length > len(str): setLen(str, length) - when defined(js): - let L = readData(s, addr(str), length) + var L: int + when nimvm: + L = readDataStr(s, str, 0..length-1) else: - let L = readData(s, cstring(str), length) + when defined(js): + L = readData(s, addr(str), length) + else: + L = readData(s, cstring(str), length) if L != len(str): setLen(str, L) proc readStr*(s: Stream, length: int, str: var string) {.since: (1, 3).} = |