[xsd-users] Minor issue: debug printing of byte and unsignedByte

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Ray,

Ray Lischner <rlischner at proteus-technologies.com> writes:

> Overloading operator<<(ostream&, x) is a nice feature for quick
> debugging and dumping of data. The only problem arises with elements
> of type byte or unsignedByte. Naturally, Code Synthesis maps these
> to signed char and unsigned char, but the standard ostream class
> (incorrectly, in my opinion) prints these types as though they
> were characters, not integers. It would be better for Code
> Synthesis to insert a static_cast to int or unsigned int prior
> to streaming byte and unsignedByte values to basic_ostream.

Yes, this is definitely a good idea. Unfortunately, the implementation
is quite hairy since these two types are handled by predefined
operators. As a result, we will need to add those casts in the
generated code. I've added this to my TODO list.


thanks,
-boris
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