From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: comparision between signed and unsigned
Date: 04 May 2003 17:10:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052064610.1242.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052040732.25950.4.camel@marx>
On Sul, 2003-05-04 at 10:32, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Sitting here watching the compile output from 2.4.21-rc1-ac4 and
> noticing there is a _lot_ of warnings about comparisions between signed
> and unsigned values. The question I have is the following. If all the
> signed values were modified to unsigned to fix the warnings, how likely
> are things to break? Is there any reason to use signed values unless a
> specific reason when negative values are required?
There has been some work done checking entries for errors in 2.4 and
fixing a few real errors. As to others, its mostly gcc being excessively
noisy by default.
If you want to work on them do it on 2.5 though
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-04 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-04 9:32 comparision between signed and unsigned Anders Karlsson
2003-05-04 10:15 ` comparison " Riley Williams
2003-05-04 13:15 ` Anders Karlsson
2003-05-04 16:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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