Hi,

* Ivan Skytte Jørgensen wrote (2007-12-30 22:53):
>On Sunday 30 December 2007 20:13:31 Thorsten Haude wrote:
>> * Ivan Skytte Jørgensen wrote (2007-10-16 01:14):
>> >The attached patch changes utils/utils.*:PrependHome() from using plain
>> > int to describe the size of the buffer to size_t. The change is
>> > propagated up to file.c where it is called.
>>
>> Why do you want to use size_t for a path length?
>
>Because length of strings, size of arrays, size of objects, etc. are best done 
>with size_t because size_t is guaranteed to have to important 
>characteristics:
>       -       large enough to hold any size of any object in memory.
>       -       unsigned.

Since the first characteristics is far from required, I would have
thought that a simple (unsigned) would do.

But I might like the idea to use size_t for any object sizes.


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