Two points

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 11 Oct 2003, in message <df80e03f4c.tom at loxley.compton.nu>,
Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <0e48cb3f4c.philip at philipnet.com>
>           Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sometime I've found OSLib to use use int where IMHO unsigned int/size_t
> > or unsigned long would be better. Unfotunately, the only one I can
> > currently think of is file sizes (now who has ever heard of a file
> > having a negative size? -:) ), but due to it's size there must be
> > others.
> > 
> > Is there scope in OSLib for the API to be changed/extended to return
> > unsigned values where they are more appropriate than signed?
> 
> I believe this is something that Jonathan has had quite strong
> opiniond about in the past, but I might be wrong. 
> 

<sigh> It is....

http://ro-oslib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#signed ints

It really does make sense :-)

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