[ocaml-ctypes] Unsigned int smaller than 32 bits

[Daniel Bünzli]

Hello,

Is there any particular reason why signed int smaller than 32 bits are accessed as ocaml ints but unsigned ints smaller than 32 bits are not ? 

In both cases you need to care about the range if you represent them as ocaml ints, and in both cases you want to represent them by ocaml ints if you don't want ctypes types to leak in the interface. I must be missing something. 

Best, 

Daniel

P.S. Already tired of writing:

let int_as_uint8_t = 
  view ~read:Unsigned.UInt8.to_int ~write:Unsigned.UInt8.of_int uint8_t

let int_as_uint16_t = 
  view ~read:Unsigned.UInt16.to_int ~write:Unsigned.UInt16.of_int uint16_t