Questions about Marty's proposal

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Questions about Marty's unsigned proposal (mostly for Marty, but feel free to contribute)

1) With Marty's proposed interface what does PVUInt.get() do when the value is greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE. Does it return a negative value or throw an exception.

2) In your suggestion for unsigneds you gave this interface below. I'm assuming it was meant to be PVUByteArray because of the short[] in the last method.

public interface PVByteArray extends PVScalarArray{
     int get(int offset, int length, ByteArrayData data);
     int put(int offset,int length, byte[] from, int fromOffset);
     void shareData(byte[] from);
     int get(int offset, int length, short[] dest, int toOffset);   // NEW METHOD
}

Is this correct? What does the last get do - does it, as I assume copy the data into the buffer. Since there's some confusion between whether this is a PVUByteArray or a PVByteArray can I check that the last argument in the first get is the existing ByteArrayData type?

Thanks.

Dr David  Hickin
Software Systems Engineer
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Diamond House
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE

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