Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:07:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [resend][PATCH] avoid signed vs unsigned comparison in efi_range_is_wc() |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Well long and int are the same size on ix86. What you really need > is 'size_t' for counters. That's the largest unsigned integer that > will fit in a register on the target platform. It is platform- > specific, therefore defined in stddef.h. No index or return-value > is supposed to be larger than what can be represented in size_t, > therefore it is a good type to use. > > Note that on 64-bit platforms, size_t will be larger than an unsigned > int. This is good. > Good info, thanks Richard.
-- Jesper
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