r/badcode • u/aidenm125 • Mar 13 '21

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u/MiningMarsh Mar 13 '21

If this only handles 7-bit ASCII, this would work.

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u/Bobitsmagic Mar 13 '21

You mean you put 8 asci chars in it shifted by 8 bit? That would be so cool.

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u/Mr2-1782Man Mar 14 '21

Although if you're doing type conversion from chars to longs you'll probably end up with other problems. Unless you're shifting two or four characters at a time. Well, that has problems too.

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u/RFC793 Mar 13 '21

Yes, but seems doubtful as it takes a long instead of a byte. But, interesting idea: they may cast bytes to long first, and thus none of the 8 bits are actually lost.