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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:32:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040109133229.06cc2410.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073672901.2069.15.camel@laptop-linux>

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> This patch makes console X and Y coordinates unsigned, rather than
> signed. Issues with wide (> 128 char?) consoles, seen when developing
> Software Suspend's 'nice display' are thus fixed. A brief examination of
> related code showed that this use of signed variables was the exception
> rather than the rule.

You'll probably find that all you needed to do was to convert the chars
over to unsigned, not the integers.

But whatever.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-09 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 18:33 PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 19:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-09 19:43   ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-09 20:33     ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-09 21:26       ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-10  3:34         ` Edgar Toernig
2004-01-13 21:57     ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-09 21:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-09 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <1c9S3-75-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1cauN-131-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1cb7n-1Z6-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1cbAw-2BB-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-16 18:41       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-16 18:54         ` Nigel Cunningham

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