On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:44:48PM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Is it really worth stripping leading digits in output_big_?leb128 ? Yes, I think we must do that.. > The only operation performed on bignum is the negation. ..due to this operation (and bitwise not) leaving leading sign bits. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM