GNU bug report logs - #58669
28.2; bindat: str and strz not operating on vectors

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nacho Barrientos <nacho.barrientos <at> cern.ch>

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 58669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 58669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nacho.barrientos <at> cern.ch
Subject: Re: bug#58669: 28.2; bindat: str and strz not operating on vectors
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:02:26 +0300

> Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> Cc: 58669-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:29:45 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > It's the first time that I look into this package so I'm not sure this
> > is the way it's meant to work but similar operations work fine on
> > vectors of bytes, for instance:
> 
> Yes, I'm actually surprised I left this code in there as-is because
> I remember wondering how to make a unibyte string from a vector of bytes
> in an efficient way (and concluding that there's currently no good way
> to do that :-( ).

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with

  (apply 'string (append VECTOR nil))
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