FR: Make Union Base Types specifiable

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FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

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Open krojew opened 3 years ago

krojew commented 3 years ago

Union discriminator (at least in Java) map to a single byte, which begins to be problematic when the number of messages exceeds the maximum range.,

aardappel commented 3 years ago

Yup, that holds in all languages, and is known problem.

It is hard to fix though, given the amount of code that assumes it's a byte.

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