From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: unsigned-int
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:16:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sqaj3ux.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDzYQoaifaa4=-Cyp=XOK_tf-c=OZLpwSdBDLFqyq5guMA@mail.gmail.com> (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:13:39 +0200")
Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
> 2017-06-22 18:20 GMT+02:00 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>:
>
>> Given this, and
>> the fact that you're passing the wrong width, makes me surprised that
>> this is working for you at all.
>
>
> Mark, thank you so much for your review. I appreciate that
>
> I apologize if my questions are naive.
No, not at all. I appreciate your work on guile-freexl. My surprise
that it was working at all was not a judgement of you, rather it was a
sincere confusion, but now I understand.
The combination of two mistakes: (endianness big) and width 1, actually
had the effect of making this work for numbers small enough to fit in 1
byte, which means unsigned numbers between 0 and 255 and signed numbers
between -128 and 127.
> So, yeah, I'm sorry for the fuss
No need to apologize.
> All that said, I applied the fixes that you suggested and I still get
> completely wrong number of rows of the spreadsheets and correct number of
> columns
>
> Exactly as before your correctons
Except that now it will work for larger numbers, and on architectures
that are truly big endian, whereas before it wouldn't have.
> For now I renounced to extract numbers from my bytevectors
>
> The culprit is: #vu8(232 3 0 0)
>
> There are 27 lines in the sheet, so this bytevector should represent 27,
> somehow.
On a little-endian architecture (which includes Intel and most other
popular architectures), #vu8(232 3 0 0) represents 1000. If that's the
number you're getting, then that part of the code is working correctly.
> On another sheet in the same file, this is what happens:
>
> (#vu8(118 0 0 0) #vu8(17 0))
>
> The sheet has 17 columns indeed. And it has 23 rows :-/
#vu8(118 0 0 0) represents 118.
I'm not sure why it's a different number than you're expecting, but I
can tell you that's the number in that bytevector.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-23 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-22 9:42 unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 9:56 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 16:20 ` unsigned-int Mark H Weaver
2017-06-22 19:13 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 19:33 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 19:55 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 20:01 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-22 20:53 ` unsigned-int Catonano
2017-06-23 12:37 ` unsigned-int Mark H Weaver
2017-06-23 12:16 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2017-06-24 9:17 ` unsigned-int Catonano
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