18 Jan
2016
18 Jan
'16
12:31 p.m.
On 18/01/2016 10:14, Phil Clayton wrote:
The intention is that they should work correctly for negative offsets. It seemed more useful that way. Word.toIntX does imply that the basis library understands signed word values.
Yes - the getX/setX operations are more useful by allowing negative offsets. Unfortunately, the word offset can be viewed in an unsigned way. I would suggest e.g. getX : voidStar * int -> Word8.word unless use of an int introduces more overhead.
I don't want to use "int" here for these very low-level functions. It would require a tag test to check that it isn't a long-format arbitrary precision number.
David