coerce a number to a short

[Mark Evenson]

> On Nov 26, 2019, at 18:38, Brad Knotwell <bknotwell at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been using ABCL to get access to a Java library and it's worked generally well.  I have run into one problem I haven't been able to workaround.
> 
> I need to make a call to a method that takes a short as an argument.  I'm passing in a value--10--that fits in a short but ABCL can't find the method (presumedly due to a type issue).  I've tried using jcoerce but it's not doing what I expect.  What's the right way to do this?

This is probably a bug in how the Bear’s FFI converts the “10” when it attempts
to locate your specific Java call site, but without a test the contains the
Java code that you are calling into diagnosing exactly what is going in is
difficult.

When I get the time (or unless someone beats me to it), I will try to make such
a test to figure out what is going on.

We could certainly do with a test suite that combinatorally probes our call
site location logic.



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