Re: PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables

[Nigel Cunningham]

You might be right. I was just being consistent with the other
definitions. Andrew? Benjamin?

Regards,

Nigel

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 08:22, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes console X and Y coordinates unsigned, rather than
> > signed. Issues with wide (> 128 char?) consoles, seen when developing
> > Software Suspend's 'nice display' are thus fixed. A brief examination of
> > related code showed that this use of signed variables was the exception
> > rather than the rule.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nigel
> [SNIPPED...]
> 
> Question: Shouldn't we be using "size_t" for unsigned int, and
> "ssize_t" for signed? If the "ints" are going to be changed,
> they probably should be changed only once. As I recall, size_t
> was the largest unsigned int that would fit into a register and
> ssize_t was the largest signed int that would fit.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dick Johnson
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