but in which the output types were unsigned rather than signed as in this one, I found that there was no le_to_u8() function. One could in fact just write BRANCH(uint8_t, *, …) in many such cases, but that is pretty obscure for the reader.
This is even more trivial than le_to_i8() but can be useful for the regular treatment of unsigned types in these sorts of switches.
In writing a switch like this one in
bcf_fmt_array():https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/8d9193899ef3e34ea8ecc9f3fb72063e74697f69/vcf.c#L2386-L2392
but in which the output types were unsigned rather than signed as in this one, I found that there was no
le_to_u8()function. One could in fact just writeBRANCH(uint8_t, *, …)in many such cases, but that is pretty obscure for the reader.This is even more trivial than
le_to_i8()but can be useful for the regular treatment of unsigned types in these sorts of switches.