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On 10/5/2011 3:51 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 10/5/2011 2:20 PM, bob wrote:
>> Thanks, but I am still confused. How can a buffer not be backed by an
>> accessible array?
>
> I would have guessed due to this method here:
>
> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBuffer.html#allocateDirect%28int%29>
>
>
> You'll need to read the comments at the begging of that page to
> understand what it is doing.


Should be "beginning" not begging.  Typing fast, didn't proofread.

Meant to add too that you seemed to have discovered another reason that 
the array would not be accessible --- the Buffer wraps another buffer, 
which is fine.