Re: byte data type

On 14 Aug 2005 03:11:18 -0700, rahul8143@xxxxxxxxx wrote or quoted :

>I am confused with byte data type. I want to know how following code
>gives result as -12?
>byte b = (byte) 0xf4;
>System.out.println("b=" +(byte)b);

byte is signed. It was an idiotic holdover from the days of C where
chars were 7 bits.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unsigned.html for how to fake unsigned
bytes.
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