[LLVMdev] More Encoding Ideas

[Reid Spencer]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 19:20, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > > It's 127 right, not 63?  Also, what does this have to do with sbyte vs
> > > ubyte?
> >
> > No, its 63. Signed bit takes up one bit and "continue bit" takes up
> > another so signed values 0-63 get the first byte and 64-127 get the
> > second, etc.
> 
> Just to clarify, it's actually -64 -> 63 that are one byte values.

Yes.

> 
> > Removing the Module ID field doesn't affect that. As Robert pointed out,
> > if we're not done reading the file by the time the "size" field runs out
> > then there's more in the file, either more modules or "random cruft" :)
> 
> Ah, even better!

Yes.

Reid.
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