Right, the idea being that we only reinterperate them when doing
something with them.
Suggest using naming to control the confusion
short field_1_count becomes short field_1_ushort_count
-Andy
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 20:35, Glen Stampoultzis wrote:
> That's basically what I did for the signed bytes.
>
> IMO both options stink. Leaving them stinks because you have to remember
> when it's appropriate to convert and changing them stinks because your you
> take up more memory than needed and imply a range of values that is not
> correct.
>
> Such is life.
>
> -- Glen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "POI Development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:22 AM
> Subject: thought on unsigned short
>
>
> > 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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