short_of_str_off returns unsigned short

[FredSRichardson]

This is more of a note to myself. But I was a bit surprised to find out that WeiDU's short_of_str_off function always returns an unsigned short, whereas NearInfinity alway displays signed shorts. Um, so anyway, it's a disaster to check "i < 0" when "i" comes from "short_of_str_off". Instead you have to do something else like "i = 0xFFFF" (-1) or "i land 0x8000" (negative) since the value is stored in a 4 byte int. Such a pain...

[the bigg]

I have given up on giving a sense to much of WeiDU internals a long time ago myself, aye.

[FredSRichardson]

I have given up on giving a sense to much of WeiDU internals a long time ago myself, aye.

I understand that better now, and you have my deepest sympathy for maintaining such a beast

 

-Fred