Thank you very much! :) On 5 Mag, 15:17, Adam Vartanian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then my question is this: why to use int32 type even though uint32 > > uses less bytes covering the same range? > > The main reason would be if you ever plan on reading the message from > non-Java code. What you've stated is only true in Java because it has > no unsigned integral types, so protobufs have to use signed types even > when a message declares a field as unsigned. In any language that has > unsigned integral types, you would write -1 and the other side would > read 4294967295. > > - Adam
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