On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:03 PM, mandy chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 12/11/17 6:31 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: >> Java has an unsigned 16 bit type. Could bci be of type "char" ? > > Yes but I think keeping it short is fine.
Call me strange if you like, but I never liked using char as anything other than a UTF-16 character. Anyway one expects that the '0xffff' forms should be optimized fairly easily. -- - DML
