Sunday, July 31, 2011

Re: [android-developers] Resources.getColor() return type is too small

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <list@samalyse.com> wrote:
> I know it's 32bit, but using a signed int to hold a value higher that 0x7FFFFFFF
> seems like perverting the sign bit IMO. It can lead to subtle bugs.

That ship sailed about two decades ago.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430346/why-doesnt-java-support-unsigned-ints

> Maybe it's a
> common case for Java programmers but it would be cleaner to use a long I think,
> since there is no unsigned integers available.

A long will perform worse than an int, except on 64-bit CPUs, none of
which power Android devices AFAIK.

Java developers have survived this long having to deal with this, and
it's not like the Internet has brok.........CARRIER LOST

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