Re: Eliminating grub_size_t

[Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:02 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> > I know what it is.  I believe int should be as good as size_t for most
>> > purposes is we are not working with very large structures or read
>> > gigabytes of data from files at once.
>> 
>> Perhaps, but it doesn't hurt either.  I think it is a good thing to
>> have a type such that it is clear what kind of variable is used.
>
> I mean, we can have the type, but make it 32-bit on all systems.
> Anyway, the warnings have been fixed.  In some cases, grub_size_t was
> used for offsets, which is wrong because we want to support large files
> on 32-bit systems.
>
> I think I'll try to make grub_size_t 32-bit everywhere and see if it's
> going to make any difference or help discover some issues.

Please don't.  I'd rather stick to integers, such change will only
slow down GRUB with no gain.

--
Marco