One Quickie

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Supporting decoding (NSCoder->General)

- (id) initWithCoder: (NSCoder *) aDecoder
{
    if (self = [super init]) {
        // or else [super initWithCoder: aDecoder] if your superclass
        // supports it.  NSObject does not.

        // decoding a C type
        [aDecoder decodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(int)
                  at: &itemCount];

        // decoding an array of C structs
        if (items != NULL) {
            free (items);
        }
        items = malloc (sizeof(BWRawPathItem) * itemCount);

        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < itemCount; i++) {
            [aDecoder decodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(BWRawPathItem)
                      at: &items[i]];
        }

        // decoding an object
        name = [aDecoder decodeObject];
        [name retain];

        // any other random initializations that don't come from
        // the encoder
        fooby = -1;
    }

    return (self);

} // initWithCoder