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

From: Nigel Cunningham (ncunningham_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 01/09/04

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    Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:43:55 +1300
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    You might be right. I was just being consistent with the other
    definitions. Andrew? Benjamin?

    Regards,

    Nigel

    On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 08:22, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
    > 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,
    >
    > *** Johnson
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