From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:33:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109213327.A2699@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073677435.2069.23.camel@laptop-linux>; from ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net on Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:43:55AM +1300
>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 18:33 Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 19:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-09 19:43 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 20:33 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-01-09 21:26 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-10 3:34 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-01-13 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-09 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
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2004-01-16 18:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-16 18:54 ` Nigel Cunningham
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