- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:22:09 +0100
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com>, "public-audio@w3.org" <public-audio@w3.org>
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 7:19:30 PM, Chris wrote: CW> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Marcos Caceres CW> <marcosscaceres@gmail.com> wrote: CW> CW> This reminds me: why "short" instead of "byte" as the type? I CW> raised that in another email as it applies generally. CW> No reason. :) Actually, no reason it's not "octet" - it should CW> not be "byte", because I think the conversion might cause CW> confusion (or problems? I don't know what happens when "0x7f" is CW> assigned to a signed 8-bit value.) Or uint8_t perhaps? Opinions vary on whether byte is signed or not. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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