Re: Storing SmallInteger in GOODS

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:24:03 +0200, Avi Bryant <avi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2004, at 6:27 AM, Yar Hwee Boon wrote:
>
> > I noticed a problem when storing and retrieving SmallInteger(s) in  
> > GOODS. Run the following:
> > =====
> > db := KKDatabase onHost: 'localhost' port: 6100.
> > db root at: #xx put: -3.
> > db flushAll.
> > (db root at: #xx) inspect
> > ======
> You need a #commit before the #flushAll or you won't have anything at  
> #xx at all.  But yes, having put that in I can reproduce your bug -  
> clearly something going wrong with the signed integer representation.   
> I'll look into it, thanks.
I thought of this, but when I try to debug and step through  
#encodeSignedInteger: and #decodeSignedInteger: by putting #halt in them,  
it seems not to write to the database, or write differently as when I  
remove the #halt-s. Do you know why?.
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HweeBoon
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