Commit db11860b authored by erik.corry@gmail.com's avatar erik.corry@gmail.com

Explain better the constraints for external string resources.


git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@218 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
parent d3f42673
......@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ class EXPORT String : public Primitive {
* An ExternalStringResource is a wrapper around a two-byte string
* buffer that resides outside V8's heap. Implement an
* ExternalStringResource to manage the life cycle of the underlying
* buffer.
* buffer. Note that the string data must be immutable.
*/
class EXPORT ExternalStringResource { // NOLINT
public:
......@@ -764,7 +764,11 @@ class EXPORT String : public Primitive {
* An ExternalAsciiStringResource is a wrapper around an ascii
* string buffer that resides outside V8's heap. Implement an
* ExternalAsciiStringResource to manage the life cycle of the
* underlying buffer.
* underlying buffer. Note that the string data must be immutable
* and that the data must be strict 7-bit ASCII, not Latin1 or
* UTF-8, which would require special treatment internally in the
* engine and, in the case of UTF-8, do not allow efficient indexing.
* Use String::New or convert to 16 bit data for non-ASCII.
*/
class EXPORT ExternalAsciiStringResource { // NOLINT
......
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