Yep...that's what I said.... signed int loses a bit... I mentioned it because I believe Declude probably uses signed ints, since there can be positive or negative weighting...but you make a good point that if you're using it for bitmasking, then you could probably use the full bitspace.
But the real question still remains of whether 2 or 4-byte ints are used. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] ANN: SPAMC32 (SpamAssassin SPAMC for Declude) 0.5.57 released On Friday, November 5, 2004, 8:51:04 AM, Darin wrote: DC> Also, I don't know for sure whether Scott or Pete use DC> unsigned 4-byte ints for the weights. Scott actually probably DC> uses signed ints, so you lose half of the bits...and if the DC> weight is a 2-byte signed int then the number of available bits DC> drops to 15. Actually, a signed int only loses a single bit, and only if you don't want to allow the negative numbers --- so in reality all of the bits in a bitmask type result _should_ be available -- that might be 32 or 16 as you point out. Most likely it's 32 bits since that's the default these days. _M --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
