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buffer-alloc-unsafe
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A ponyfill for Buffer.allocUnsafe
.
Works as Node.js: v7.0.0
Works on Node.js: v0.10.0
npm install --save buffer-alloc-unsafe
const allocUnsafe = require('buffer-alloc-unsafe')
console.log(allocUnsafe(10))
//=> <Buffer 78 0c 80 03 01 00 00 00 05 00>
console.log(allocUnsafe(10))
//=> <Buffer 58 ed bf 5f ff 7f 00 00 01 00>
console.log(allocUnsafe(10))
//=> <Buffer 50 0c 80 03 01 00 00 00 0a 00>
allocUnsafe(-10)
//=> RangeError: "size" argument must not be negative
size
<Integer> The desired length of the new Buffer
Allocates a new non-zero-filled Buffer
of size
bytes. The size
must be
less than or equal to the value of buffer.kMaxLength
and greater than or equal
to zero. Otherwise, a RangeError
is thrown.
Buffer.alloc
Buffer.fill
Buffer.from
FAQs
A [ponyfill](https://ponyfill.com) for `Buffer.allocUnsafe`.
The npm package buffer-alloc-unsafe receives a total of 4,278,191 weekly downloads. As such, buffer-alloc-unsafe popularity was classified as popular.
We found that buffer-alloc-unsafe demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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