Re: immediate strings #2

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/29/11 21:37, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> It looks like I miss the point. For an immediate strings, we need
> two extra bits - 1 for GC, 1 for string subtype, so the question is
> simple: where to get them if both size and size_byte are ptrdiff_t?

You can get 1 bit from 'size' since it's always nonnegative.

You can get the other bit from 'size_byte' if you change it
so that it's always nonnegative.  This can be done by using
0 rather than -1 as its special value indicating that it
is unibyte and the actual byte size is given in 'size'.