[Vm-dev] Sometimes it's too easy, part II

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

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> On 26.01.2017, at 11:42, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> > Awesome! However ...
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> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The default type for oops in the VM is sqInt (*), which is signed.
> >
> > ... since this keeps biting us time and time again, how hard would it be
> to change? Defaulting to unsigned seems much more reasonable, no? Unless
> we're dealing with SmallIntegers, which have to be special-cased anyways,
> we never want unsigned behavior, right?
> >
>
> *signed behavior?


Err, yes, we never want *signed* behavior unless comparing / shifting small
ints.

- Bert -


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> > - Bert -
> > (*) fixed the typo
> >
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