lfpinit() signed or unsigned?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:02:46 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> That makes sense.  Unsigned on the wire.  Signed internally for
> deltas.

Seems so.

> How about something like l_fp_time (unsigned) and l_fp_delta or
> l_fp_offset (signed)?

I'm now leaning that way too.  And two ways to make an l_fp, one
starting with int's and the other uint's.

> The casts I was thinking of eliminating were in the main code -- push
> them into macros if needed.

In some case the macros call macros that call macros and there are
now long chains of casts.  All just to get back where it started...

Target rich environment!

RGDS
GARY
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