Hi all,
I've been thinking about it and I just hate the idea of making all
shorts ints to handle signing issues. So how about this. Add a utility
function somewhere called ushort that takes in a short and outputs an
int adjusting the value by reinterpreting the sign as a proper value.
Yes this will waste an operation but binary operations are not very
expensive.
Anyhow. Heres what I think it is roughtly
int retval = myshort;
if (myshort < 0) {
retval = (Math.abs(myshort));
retval = retval | 0x800;
}
return retval;
Please correct me if I'm wrong and MARC can you give us the handy dandy
bit-twiddler version?
Will this work?
We should have the method in a central util class, but then have (for
convenience) a method called ushort that calls to it in either the
stylesheet for generating records/types or a superclass.
Thoughts?
-andy
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