440166 - Why do getAsInt8() and setAsInt8() use Uint8 instead of Int8?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226403

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Jason Sachs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: current (1.9?)

see lines 94 and 144 of nsIVariant.idl

Is this one of those "oops, sorry but we froze the interface so we need to stick with it" bugs? 

Sure, it's not a huge workaround, but if you're not going to fix it, you should at least put a note in the .idl file saying "Note: this uses a Uint8 argument even though the method name is Int8()

Reproducible: Always

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