Typing

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, at 13:44:46, Chris Rutter
<chris at willow.armlinux.org> wrote on the subject "Typing":

>There are a number of slightly infelicitous types in OSLib; generally
>things that really should be `unsigned' or `size_t' are referred to as
>`int', when the items in question don't make sense as negative integers.
>
>Is there a policy on this anywhere?
>
Well, the general policy is, of course, that these should be unsigned
types. However, we are aware of some of these mis-castings, and in order
to avoid filling the library with new functions (as they would have to
be to preserve backwards compatibility), we've left them alone, unless
there's a specific problem.

The OSArgs extents are a specific example of this; They should be
unsigned, but no current file system returns 4Gb extents, so apart from
noting their existence, we're leaving them alone (for now).

Do you have a specific problem, and do you have a list of the errant
types you have encountered?

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