On 06/01/2015 01:38 AM, Matteo Casalin wrote:
     while converting some sal_uInt16 to sal_Int32 in
cui/source/dialogs/hyphen.cxx, I noticed that getHyphenationPositions()
returns a sequence of short/sal_Int16. The surrounding code suggests
that sal_Int32 would be more appropriate, but I see that this function
is listed in some .idl files and I can't say if changing it would break
some published API.

Looking at cui/source/dialogs/hyphen.cxx, you probably mean method getHyphenationPositions of UNO interface css.linguistic2.XPossibleHyphens. Which is indeed published, so cannot be changed, for backwards compatibility.

So if there is really convincing reason to change this to e.g. sequence<long>, either introduce a css.linguistic2.XPossibleHyphens2 etc. or discuss what the implications would be of incompatibly changing css.linguistic.XPossibleHyphens.

Otherwise, best document that getHyphenationPositions unfortunately has a poor return type for historic reasons, and ensure that its implementations do reasonable things (e.g., do not include too large positions in the returned sequence but emit a SAL_WARN instead).
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