From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:30:27 +0000 Subject: Re: posix-clock: Use an unsigned data type for a variable Message-Id: <5677C6B3.8060007@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <56766488.9050402@users.sourceforge.net> <20151220200934.GB2027@netboy> In-Reply-To: <20151220200934.GB2027@netboy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Cochran Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall > In this case, there is indeed a problem. However, just changing the > type won't fix it. Would you like to explain your view on the handling of potential data type mismatches a bit more? Regards, Markus