Difference parsing from String and byte literal

carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de carsten.zerbst at groy-groy.de
Sat Apr 9 12:59:34 PDT 2011


Hello,

I played a little with the new JDK7 and run into a inconsistency with
existing code.

So far I use the following code to represent a mask

  long SOURCE_ENTITY_TYPE_MASK = Long.parseLong("10000000" + //
                 "00000000" + //
                 "00000000" + //
                 "10000000", 2);

Ok, the shiny new version would be

long coin = 0b10000000_00000000_00000000_10000000;

But if one print the decimal and binary representation one gets a difference

from String 2147483776
from String                            10000000000000000000000010000000
binary -2147483520
binary 1111111111111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000010000000


This is no problem for my mask but should perhaps be mentioned in the  
tutorial ?

Bye, Carsten



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