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JoeAltmaier
on Nov 5, 2014
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Neovim: input encoding and you
Casting smaller doesn't hurt if the numbers are small and you're little endian - because the ptr will still point at the meat of the scalar (instead of the high bytes with zeros in them as it would if big-endian)
duaneb
on Nov 6, 2014
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I'm not sure you understand big-endian casting—it's still value based, so you'll still get the least significant bits in the casted value.
JoeAltmaier
on Nov 7, 2014
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The issue was, casting an untyped pointer which does NOT get the conversion you mention.
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