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[torkell]

Oh yes, and I almost forgot my recommended daily software rant: in Java, all bytes are signed. There is no such thing as an unsigned byte.

A side-effect of this is that a statement such as byte foo = 0xAA; gives a compiler error.

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[pewterfish.livejournal.com]

Yes, that can be a bit of a pain in the arse, especially when you're trying to talk to hardware. The canonical solution is to always allocate one storage class larger than you need (put a char in a short, a short in an int, and so on). It's a stupid, wasteful fix, but it does work if you need signedness that much.