Re: [Quickfix-developers] MiscFeeType (139)

[Malinka R. <ael...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 16:38, Grant Birchmeier
<gbi...@co...> wrote:
> In C++, a char can be treated like an int.  Values 10, 11, and 12 can
> be assigned to a char without a problem.
>
> If you have C++ code such as "char x = 8;", then x will not be storing
> the character "8", but the unsigned integer value 8, which is intended
> to be interpreted as the ASCII character with code 8 (see
> http://www.asciitable.com/).

yes and 8 != '8' (56), and in QF the 139 value of "Markup" is '8' 56
if displayed as an int.

If the FIX spec expected a integral value of 8 to be interpreted as
Backspace, then they could not have a value of 1 (Start of Header)
which is the FIX field delimiter

> In the FIX spec, value 139 is specified as a char.

Which would be the a single Ascii value not an integer between 0-255
otherwise they would have specified the Field as an integer.

> Note: A char and an int are not exactly the same.  On many (most?)
> implementations, a char is 8 bits wide, and thus can only range from
> 0-255.
>

Also this does not answer the question of why another source would
refer to the field as being of type Int