<div dir="ltr"><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></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jussi<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Demosthenes Koptsis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:demosthenesk@gmail.com" target="_blank">demosthenesk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>so your advice is to use Integer not Long.</p>
<p>is this right?<br>
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</span>That means that the Gambas integer type is only 31
(+ 1) bits wide. Not wide enough to hold a 32-bit unsigned
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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
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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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