[Clam-devel] Re: Patch for Steps of LoadFrom

[David García Garzón]

>             > Once we turned the constructor into a templateless one, lets
>             > do an 'Extract method' refactoring from the constructor for
>             > the data filling part. So, for each Segmentation add the
>             > following method:
>             > void takeArray(TData * begin, TData * iterator end)
>             > {
>             >  // copy here the filling code from the constructor
>             > }
>             > Then substitute the copied code at the constructor by a call
>             > to such method. All the test should be working.
>
>             The patch is of the step above.
>             Notice that to make the test pass, I made a forced type change
> (Iterator->TData), and changed the related type (double->float) of the
> unittests. That is ugly and requires the "Iterator" datatype must be
> consistent with "TData".


Notice that such cast is not safe (it works but it should not). Just make the 
constructor not a template but a using a TData *.

If we want to allow both float and double we could just overload both, the 
constructor and the takeArray method, with both, float* and double* 
parameters. But doing such a cas is dangerous as you cold feed float* and it 
would not work as the stride (gap in bytes between elements) for float and 
doubles is different. So let's adhere to TData*.


-- 
David García Garzón
(Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es
http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia
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