[THRIFT-233] IDL doesn't support negative hex literals

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: Compiler (General)
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 17/Dec/08 18:59
• Updated: 30/Apr/15 18:57
• Resolved: 26/Apr/15 15:49

Description

if you try a field def like

i32 my_field = -0x7fff

the compiler complains. If you try to make the value a two's complement negative number without the sign, then it assumes it was supposed to be a long, and the Java compiler chokes on the assignment.

It'd be nice if we supported negative hex literals.