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[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-3738) Be consistent about negative
vInt/vLong
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3738?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13231222#comment-13231222 ]
Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-3738:
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LUCENE-3876/LUCENE-3879 reveal more situations where we must write negatives with the current encodings,
because we steal bits from things like positions (payloads) and docids too (at least in skip data?)
So sometimes its possible these are encoded as negatives.
I think Uwe should commit his fixes?
> Be consistent about negative vInt/vLong
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-3738
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3738
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Fix For: 3.6, 4.0
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-3738.patch, LUCENE-3738.patch
>
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> Today, write/readVInt "allows" a negative int, in that it will encode and decode correctly, just horribly inefficiently (5 bytes).
> However, read/writeVLong fails (trips an assert).
> I'd prefer that both vInt/vLong trip an assert if you ever try to write a negative number... it's badly trappy today. But, unfortunately, we sometimes rely on this... had we had this assert in 'since the beginning' we could have avoided that.
> So, if we can't add that assert in today, I think we should at least fix readVLong to handle negative longs... but then you quietly spend 9 bytes (even more trappy!).
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