Claiming that there's no supporting evidence is a bold (and obviously false) claim when the code is 2 years old and heavily redacted.

"..." all over the place in 2 year old code is production code?

And people who work at X don't say they work at Twitter.

> 0x80

Which is of course has the sign bit set.

The comments here are educational ... I hadn't realized that the field of programming had become this degraded.

I can't imagine suffering from that. Understanding twos complement representation is an essential programming skill. And a byte value of 128? What is that in hex?

No one got you wrong ... you claimed that you couldn't see any reason to continue to use C++. That was a lie.