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Re: [Json] Schemas & so on - int54

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 04 May 2016 12:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Schemas & so on - int54
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Peter Cordell scripsit:

> If your protocol needed an unsigned value bigger than 32 bits, but
> not as big as 64-bits, to mirror int54, would it be appropriate to
> define a uint53 type (i.e. the unsigned version of int(N) stored in
> a floating point value is uint(N-1))?  Or would you do something
> else?

I suppose so.

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