sPHENIX tracking discussion

[Anthony Frawley <afrawley AT fsu.edu>]

Hi David,

I prefer UCHAR_MAX.

Tony

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Subject: [Sphenix-tracking-l] Can I use "0" as a value for an unused TrkrDefs::hitsetkey

 

Hi experts,

I have some logic in which an array of hitsetkeys checks different keys, and assumes that a value of "0" is never a valid hitsetkey value. In interest of avoiding some funny logic bugs later, is this assumption ok? Alternatively, would using UCHAR_MAX by an acceptable value? If neither, I can modify the logic of the code fairly easily, too.

Thanks

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David Stewart

Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Physics, Wayne State University