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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Subject: size_t vs "unsigned long"
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:30:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabr0djqr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)

Traditionally, inside git, we have used the length of things
with "unsigned long" for pretty much anything, except where we
wanted the length exactly sized we used int32_t, uint64_t and
friends.

A few places pass pointer to unsigned long as the second
parameter to strbuf_detach(), triggering type mismatch warnings.
An easy way out is to change strbuf_detach() to take a pointer
to ulong but I think it is going backwards.  Most places that
use "unsigned long" can safely be converted (and made more
correct) to use size_t.

Any opinions?

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-03 20:30 Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-10-03 20:48 ` size_t vs "unsigned long" Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-03 21:05   ` Junio C Hamano
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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