>From https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#types:

If you use int32 or int64 as the type for a negative number, the resulting
varint is *always ten bytes long*

Per the section's recommendation you should use sint32/sint64 if you expect
to have signed values.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:51 AM, bhaskar20001 <bhaskar20...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I want to know how may bytes will be used when Int32 is encoded for
> Java library and C++ in case of negative values.
>
>  Is there any difference in number of bytes used for encoding in case
> of +ve and -ve values for Java library and C++ library.
>
> Thanks,
> Bhaskar
>
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