[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9637) Ocean numbers

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9637 >

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Jason Short wrote:

> > It works fine as it is.  Do I have to change the type?
>
> I don't see how it can work fine.  The negative values are converted to
> large positive values when sent to the client.  But perhaps the client
> never uses them?

The client converts them back to signed.

> My mistake though - it's a short not a char; I was thinking it was an
> 8-byte value but with 16 (or 15) bytes there is no danger of overflow.

bits

> And the CONTINENT type should be an SINT16, as you made it.

so I guessed right.