On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> One thing BitStream and BitInputStream have in common is what happens > when I request more bits than are available from the underlying stream, > both will signal an EOF and discard the cached bits. I.e if there are > still three bits cached that haven't been read and I request four bits > I'll get a -1 rather than the three bits, I'm not sure this is the > correct behavior. The (badly documented) assumption of readBits(final int count) is that exactly count bits must be successfully read, or it's a failure. For compression algorithms, these bits are symbols, and you can't do anything with half a symbol. Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
