Name: sgC58550 Date: 03/20/97


The following code is from the source file for java.io.InputStream:

    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
/* ensure that the number is a positive int */
byte data[] = new byte[(int) (n & 0xEFFFFFFF)];
return read(data);
    }

First, shouldn't that be 0x7FFFFFFF (not that anyone is likely to need to skip that many bytes)?
Second, it seems horribly inefficient to allocate a large array to hold the data I am discarding.
Wouldn't it be better to read the data and discard the bytes in a loop?

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