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

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 15:34:46 EST


>> Shouldn't we be using "size_t" for unsigned int

> You might be right. I was just being consistent with the other definitions.

These are character positions on a screen.
When did you last see a console in text mode with a line length
of more than 2^31 ?

If you go for a minimal patch then you should replace "char"
in one or two places by "unsigned char" and that is all.

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