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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: size_t vs "unsigned long"
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:05:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v641newom.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071003204801.GC28188@artemis.corp> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:48:01 +0200")

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>   Well, afaict, on every linux archs I know of, unsigned longs and
> size_t are the same. Though, I don't know if that holds for the msys
> port, and if that does not holds, then a s/unsigned long/size_t/ would
> help them. Else, for consistency sake, I believe the change is a good
> one.

FWIW, I am already getting bitten on a FC box with gcc 4.1.1
20060525 that warns about the wrong type being passed, as I
usually build things with -Werror; the issue is not just "they
are of the same underlying type".

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 20:30 size_t vs "unsigned long" Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03 20:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-03 21:05   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-10-03 21:19   ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-03 21:36     ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-04  7:16       ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-03 21:36   ` Florian Weimer
2007-10-05  6:27     ` Kyle Moffett

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