Re: Faster UTF-8 decoding in GLib

[Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 27.03.2010, 17:40 -0400 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> On 03/27/2010 05:21 PM, Daniel Elstner wrote:
> > Well, I assume that ints are at least 32 bit wide on any platform
> > supported by GLib.  But if you meant to say that it would break with
> > larger ints, I don't see why.  As long as the type is unsigned, it
> > should be fine.
> 
> If the utf8 byte has more than 6 leading 1 bits, [...]

That's an oxymoron.

> [...] and with a 64bit int, the
> construct tries to consume 7 or 8 bytes.  Right?

Undefined behavior.

--Daniel