On 01/05/13 14:17, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:42 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
>
>> On 01/05/13 14:07, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 13:52:50 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> On 01/05/13 13:54, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:01 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
>>>>> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 01/05/13 10:58, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 10:08:48 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
>>>>>>> said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 30/04/13 18:48, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:15:05 +0100 Tom Hacohen
>>>>>>>>> <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Where did you get that on?
>>>>>>>>>> Anyhow, what do you think about changing it to unsigned wchar_t?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> on my pentium-m test machine... unicode val 0 was < 0 and thus walked
>>>>>>>>> below the array. yes. literally a negative.  wouldnt that be wuchar_t
>>>>>>>>> or something? as wchar_t .. is a typedef... :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hm... Annoying. There's no wuchar_t though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> then we have... a problem... and it requires we check for < 0. :(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think me might be better off casting to unsigned. Damn you people for
>>>>>> not doing all the char type unsigned, wth?!
>>>>>
>>>>> chances are the compiler will produce the exact same code regardless... a
>>>>> cast or what is there now.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nah, the whole point of the cast is to convert it to unsigned, I'm quite
>>>> certain the compiler is capable of doing that.
>>>
>>> but your casting inside the func to just avoid if (x < 0)... which a
>>> compiler will figure out to be the same as the cast to unsigned...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The cast will work for unicode values that are greater than the signed
>> limit (less than 0), while the if just fail for them.
>
> there are no unicode values of that magnitude... unicode by definition doesnt
> even get close to using the most significant bit... :) it's by definition an
> invalid code if < 0 (for 32bit signed)...
>
>

Oh, forgot to mention, I was thinking about boxes where wchar_t is 
signed and 16bit. :) There we'll have trouble.
If you got negative values it must mean you've reached big enough 
unicode values, so the issue I'm describing is indeed real.

--
Tom.

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