Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:50:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war |
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > Wouldn't it have made more sense to make the 'len' parameter an unsigned int?
Oh yes.
And wouldn't it be nicer if the sky was pink, and God came personally down to earth and stopped all wrans and made you king?
You do realize that many things are signed, whether you want them to be or not?
Like "off_t", which on the face of it sounds like it should be unsigned ("offset within a file - oh, that can obviously never be negative").
Linus
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