by the <code class="code">int</code> type,
    which has more bits than the binary encoding.  These extra bits
    are sign-extended (or zero-extended) for functions which decode 8-bit
    or 16-bit integers and represented them with <code class="code">int</code> values.</p>

<pre><span id="VALget_uint8"><span class="keyword">val</span> get_uint8</span> : <code class="type">string -&gt; int -&gt; int</code></pre><div class="info ">
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<p><code class="code">get_uint8&nbsp;b&nbsp;i</code>