Re: [bug #4658] Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote:
> > 2. It is not possible to copy from X and paste in GNUstep strings 
> > longer than 1024 characters.
>
> It seems that this is due not to gpbs, but to the implementation of 
> NSSerializer.
> In the method + (NSData*) serializePropertyList: (id)propertyList, we 
> have
>
>   d = [NSMutableData dataWithCapacity: 1024];
>
> I hope the limitation will be lifted once someone changes the magic 
> number 1024,
> though I'm not sure if it is possible.

No, it's not due to that ... the capacity specifies the initial memory 
size of the data object,
not a limit ... you can serialize megabytes of data reasonably 
efficiently.