Function writepadding

tools/comdb2ar/serialise.cpp:55–70

static void writepadding(size_t nbytes)
{
    static const char zeroes[1024] = {0};
    while(nbytes > 0) {
        ssize_t num = nbytes;
        if(num > sizeof(zeroes)) {
            num = sizeof(zeroes);
        }
        if(writeall(1, zeroes, num) != num) {
            std::ostringstream ss;
            ss << "error writing zero padding: " << std::strerror(errno);
            throw Error(ss);
        }
        nbytes -= num;
    }
}


static void serialise_string(const std::string& filename,