On 15/10/15 17:58, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 15/10/15 17:14, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> I build gcc from git regularly, and my first test is to use it to
>>> build coreutils.
>>> Today's gcc exposed this nit:
> ...
>>> -  int nfiles = 0;
>>> +  unsigned int nfiles = 0;
>>
>> How about size_t since it's used as an array index?
> 
> That variable is used solely to count/index-into argv-related things.
> Are there systems that can support more than 2^32 command-line arguments?
> Happy to change (consistency?), if you'd like.

Heh, fair point :)
I was mainly thinking of consistency with changes like:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v7.4-72-g0e93175

thanks,
Pádraig

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