Question on byte

[Chitra AP]

for (byte bv = 0; bv < (byte)255; bv++) {
System.out.println(bv);
}

When I execute this block of within the main(), it is not printing anything. Please let me know the reason for it.

I thought it will narrow the value and print from 1 to 127.

Thanks

[Tony Morris]

The loop never enters because the condition 0 < (byte)255 is not met.
Try this:
System.out.println((byte)255);
and you will see that it is always less than zero (the initial value).

Here's something related:
http://qa.jtiger.org/GetQAndA.action?qids=74

[Steven Bell]

255 is outside the range of byte. The int representation of 255 is:

11111111

When cast to a byte you end up with -1 so your loop is

for (byte bv = 0; bv < -1; bv++) {
  System.out.println(bv);
}

[amit taneja]

just wanted to know

how can we know that 11111111 is equlant to -1 ..how do u calculate..?

and will bv<125 give error ? i think now because..it retuns boolen value...
and comparsion b/w byte and int is ablsolutely fine ...i m right ?

[Philip Heller]

Amit wrote:

"how can we know that 11111111 is equlant to -1 ..how do u calculate..?"

For bytes, shorts, ints, and longs, negative numbers are represented using 2's-complement notation. To take the negative of a number, invert all the bits and then add 1. (Don't worry if there's overflow.) So to take the negative of 1, start with

00000001

Then invert all bits:

11111110

And add 1:

11111111

Note that if you invert all these bits and add 1, you've taken the negative of -1, and you're back at +1. There's an animated illustration that lets you play with this mechanism in Chapter 2 of "Ground-Up Java".

And you're right that bv<125 is ok.

[amit taneja]

so u have written the book java groundup..
and thats y naming it...
any way...
thanx and goodluck for ur book

is there is some pdf version available or any part of it u give for publicity ...so we can atleast get some info about book and to review the book
regards,
[ June 05, 2005: Message edited by: amit taneja ]