On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Alec Flett <alecfl...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > Personally outside of WebKit I tend to see more "char*" as the common > denominator for raw bytes. > I've been coding in C since around 1972, and I admit that in the early days, char was used as a synonym for byte, however, that convention has long been dropped in favor of unsigned char. See [1] for a nice discussion, especially the second answer. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/653336/should-a-buffer-of-bytes-be-signed-or-unsigned-char-buffer > > So far Benjamin objected, and then seems to have rescinded. Glenn, do you > depend on SerializedScriptValue's current method signatures? > I personally alway use unsigned char/uint8_t for raw byte strings. However, I don't have any dependency on SerializedScriptValue. Given Maciej and Adam's comments, you had best stay with unsigned char/uint_8 and convert any non-conforming usage to this pattern when needed.
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