It's possible to construct a typed array from a buffer but the buffer
is treated as an array, not a byte array as one might expect.
Fixes#7786.
Signed-off-by: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Consider the following example:
console.log(Buffer('ú').toString('ascii'));
Before this commit, the contents of the buffer was used as-is and hence it
prints 'ú'.
Now, it prints 'C:'. Perhaps not much of an improvement but it conforms to what
the documentation says it does: strip off the high bits.
Fixes#4371.
Argument checks were simplified by setting all undefined/NaN or out of
bounds values equal to their defaults.
Also copy() tests had a flaw that each buffer had the same bit pattern at
the same offset. So even if the copy failed, the bit-by-bit comparison
would have still been true. This was fixed by filling each buffer with a
unique value before copy operations.
Removed range checks when writing float values, and removed a few
includes and defines. Also updated api docs to reflect that invalid 32
bit float is an unspecified behavior.
Ben Noordhuis
Trevor Norris
isaacs
Nathan Rajlich
Jeroen Janssen
Shigeki Ohtsu
koichik
Kyle Robinson Young
Yoshihiro Kikuchi