>> On 03/05/16 15:34, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
>> > I disagree, the old names are relatively clear. Whilst I think the speed
>> > improvements in this patch are great, the function names like
>> bitstream_read_32
>> > are really confusing. IMO adding a number suffix should be the exception
>> > rather than the norm (i.e when reading large numbers of bits).
>>
>> The past code shown that not having the number of bits would make people
>> assume such functions work for the wrong range.
>>
>> The new functions support a larger range BUT I had bitten once too many
>> to consider using _long for the 63 bits variant.
>>
>> Yes but reading > 32 bits isn't very common so it should be treated as the
> special case.
> All these _32s make things very very unreadable. I want the unusual cases
> to have special suffixes.
>

Would be bitstream_read_signed instead of bitstream_read_s32 better?
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