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<p>Thanks Jussi!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/10/2018 09:27 PM, Jussi Lahtinen
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<div>Use interger, otherwise you will start to experience random
unexpected behaviour.</div>
<div>However, keep in mind that passing values from Gambas
greater, than 31bit may not be straightforward (they look like
negative values in Gambas).<br>
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<p>so your advice is to use Integer not Long.</p>
<p>is this right?<br>
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06/10/2018 09:10 PM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:<br>
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means that the Gambas integer type is only
31 (+ 1) bits wide. Not wide enough to hold
a 32-bit unsigned integer if the<br>
highest bit is reserved for the sign bit.<br>
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So then, if it is wide enough as you say,
how would one manage a 32-bit unsigned
integer in a 32-bit signed datatype?<br>
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<div>They both contain 32bits of information,
unsigned or not. Signed integer only means
that the most significant bit is reserved
for the sign.</div>
<div>When the library reads the signed value,
it ignores the original meaning of the most
significant bit, because it assumes it as
unsigned.</div>
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