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

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

On Mo, 2026-06-08 at 22:09 +0200, Bertho Stultiens wrote:
> > Another approach that would be possible in principle with accessors
> > would be to do conversion between types in the setter/getter
> > functions.
> 
> That is exactly the idea. If you change the underlying model, then
> the 
> code does not need adjusting because the getter/setter code will
> capture 
> and adapt to the changes so your API is a constant.
> 
> 
> > The disadvantage would be that this could lead to surprising
> > behaviour
> > and you can't explicitely decide if you want to truncate, saturate,
> > round or whatever to convert a value.
> 
> FWIW, the current code assumes truncation nearly everywhere.
> Otherwise 
> it codes around the problem (or crashes if the programmer didn't care
> to 
> take account for it).

I was talking more about the user experience and the possibility to
avoid conv_X_Y functions, with accessors, linking different numerical
types could be possible, e.g. connect a bit output to a int input.


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Robert Schöftner <rm...@un...>