Re: CMemFile::GetBufferPtr

From:
"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:19:30 -0700
Message-ID:
<OivGUHB9HHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>

The CMemFile will still report that it does not support direct buffering


m_bDirectBuffer is set to true for me after the call to
"m_pFile->GetBufferPtr(CFile::bufferCheck)&CFile::bufferDirect". Are you
still getting false?? If so, there may be something else going on.

If I remember correctly, FillBuffer is bypassed when using CMemFile (with a
supplied buffer) with CArchive and memory access is direct to/from the
buffer. A few months ago I went through the code pretty thoroughly to make
sure things were working the way I needed. Of course, I need to refresh my
findings :). I'll Take a look again later this evening or tomorrow morning.

Cheers,
Mark

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Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

"XirisJohn" <XirisJohn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B2478DF6-F9A0-493E-A5FE-EB10F8366E0B@microsoft.com...

Thanks Mark!

That certainly works, but it seems like a workaround to me. The CMemFile
will still report that it does not support direct buffering, and thus
there
will be an extra memmove_s in CArchive::FillBuffer. Not a big deal,
perhaps,
but I'm intrigued to know if there is a better way :-)

John

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