Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 14070 invoked from network); 25 May 2007 18:23:32 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 25 May 2007 18:23:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 11094 invoked by uid 500); 25 May 2007 18:23:36 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-dev-archive@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 11062 invoked by uid 500); 25 May 2007 18:23:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact derby-dev-help@db.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: Delivered-To: mailing list derby-dev@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 11053 invoked by uid 99); 25 May 2007 18:23:36 -0000 Received: from herse.apache.org (HELO herse.apache.org) (140.211.11.133) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:36 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (herse.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [32.97.182.144] (HELO e4.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.144) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:30 -0700 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4PIN9iC013513 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l4PIN9pR545754 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l4PIN9E7024351 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (sig-9-48-105-131.mts.ibm.com [9.48.105.131]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l4PIN6t6024279 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 14:23:09 -0400 Message-ID: <46572985.60904@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:01 -0700 From: Mike Matrigali Reply-To: mikem_app@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derby Development Subject: question about WorkHorseForCollatorDatatypes.java Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Why is 5 a good magic number in the following comment, is there some guarantee 5 more is always enough?: /* Believe it or not, a String might have more * collation elements than characters. * So, we handle that case by increasing the int array * by 5 and copying array elements. */