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

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

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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