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    <p>So at work yesterday, I had to write an application to count the pages in an AFP file. So I dusted off my MO:DCA spec PDF and found the structured field <code>BPG (Begin Page)</code> and its 3-byte identifier. The app needs to run on an AIX box, so I decided to write it in Java. </p> <p>For maximum efficiency, I decided that I would read the first 6 bytes of each structured field and then skip the remaining bytes in the field. This would get me:</p> <pre><code>0: Start of field byte 1-2: 2-byte length of field 3-5: 3-byte sequence identifying the type of field </code></pre> <p>So I check the field type and increment a page counter if it's <code>BPG</code>, and I don't if it's not. Then I skip the remaining bytes in the field rather than read through them. And here, in the skipping (and really in the field length) is where I discovered that Java uses signed bytes.</p> <p>I did some googling and found quite a bit of useful information. Most useful, of course, was the instruction to do a bitwise <code>&amp;</code> to <code>0xff</code> to get the unsigned int value. This was necessary for me to get a length that could be used in the calculation for the number of bytes to skip.</p> <p>I now know that at 128, we start counting backwards from -128. What I want to know is how the bitwise operation works here--more specifically, how I arrive at the binary representation for a negative number.</p> <p>If I understand the bitwise <code>&amp;</code> properly, your result is equal to a number where only the common bits of your two numbers are set. So assuming <code>byte b = -128</code>, we would have:</p> <pre><code>b &amp; 0xff // 128 1000 0000-128 1111 1111 255 --------- 1000 0000 128 </code></pre> <p>So how would I arrive at 1000 0000 for -128? How would I get the binary representation of something less obvious like -72 or -64?</p>
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