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Modernize buffer access #71

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@1ec5 1ec5 commented Nov 6, 2020

#43 fixed a Swift compiler warning about unsafely casting a buffer in memory by reinterpreting the data as an NSData, which has fewer safety checks. We got lucky until adding support for Linux in #55: on some systems, the string is stored in a format that’s inconsistent with NSData’s internal storage on Apple platforms. This resulted in undefined behavior and random crashes on Linux when calling decodePolyline(_:precision:). As of Swift 5, the safer way to get random access into this buffer appears to be Data.withUnsafeBytes(_:) and casting later.

/cc @frederoni @MaximAlien @erichoracek

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1ec5 commented Nov 6, 2020

The PR build succeeded about 10 minutes ago, but GitHub hasn’t been notified yet.

@1ec5 1ec5 merged commit 0cd4499 into master Nov 6, 2020
@1ec5 1ec5 deleted the 1ec5-mapbox-directions-tests branch November 6, 2020 21:22
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