Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 24, 2022 23:26 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by Sesse
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
1. short is very often good enough for use cases like that. Not always, but often.
2. If you must use char, unsigned will work perfectly well (does your Bloom Filter have a negative count?!), so this isn't actually a use case for signed char.
3. If you need a sentinel value, you can use 255; there is no magical rule that says sentinel values have to be negative.
2. If you must use char, unsigned will work perfectly well (does your Bloom Filter have a negative count?!), so this isn't actually a use case for signed char.
3. If you need a sentinel value, you can use 255; there is no magical rule that says sentinel values have to be negative.