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

On 07/31/2011 03:40 PM, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> On 31 July 2011 15:13, Olivier Guilyardi <list@samalyse.com
> <mailto:list@samalyse.com>> wrote:
>
> How comes Resources.getColor() returns an int? This can't hold the
> maximum value
> of 0xFFFFFFFF because Java int is signed.
>
> Java does not offer "unsigned" so you're right, you will get negative
> value if you i.e. Log.i(() it, but that's not really important as it's
> just matter of *interpretation* of the value. All bits of 0xFFFFFFFF are
> the same no matter if you *treat* it as signed or unsigned int and this
> is what matters.

Ok, thanks, let's call that a subtlety then.

--
Olivier

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