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Re: how to handle negative bytes?
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Anmol Sethi |
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Re: how to handle negative bytes? |
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Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:08:00 -0400 |
What exactly do you mean by I should have checked the string-heap size is
consistent and the data is well formatted?
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:59 PM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 03:52:52PM -0400, Anmol Sethi wrote:
>> I’m writing a pure go terminfo library. term(5) says "The value -1 is
>> represented by the two bytes 0377, 0377; other negative values are illegal”.
>> So does this mean if I read any negative short integer that is not -1, should
>> I throw an error? Or should I just continue on?
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> I'd treat any other negative value as missing - by the time you're
> processing those values, you should have checked that the string-heap
> size is consistent, that the data is well-formatted.
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