Re: [Emc-developers] on the integer question by Rene

[Robert S. <rm...@un...>]

Am Montag, dem 08.06.2026 um 15:47 +0200 schrieb mark.vandoesburg---
via Emc-developers:
> To me it seems unwise to remove the integer types. Both signed and
> unsigned are usefull. The unsigned type is especially usefull for
> encoders, since it will properly overflow/underflow. For the signed
> type
> overflow/underflow is implementation defined.

that overflow typically doesn't happen in the HAL layer, there you want
to deal with scaled quantities like a length or an angle.

if you look at the definition of the floating point format, you will
see that it can store integers from -2^53 to 2^53 exactly (+-9e15
roughly or 9000km in nm-resolution). 

-- 
Robert Schöftner <rm...@un...>