On 18/11/2019 10.25, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>> The related question is, is it OK to use size_t to iterate over an array?
>>
>> for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(array); i++) {
>> ...
>> }
>
> My rule of thumb on integer types is "whatever lets me avoid
> not-obviously-safe conversions (implicit ones in particular) with the
> least type cast clutter.
>
> Quite often, int fits the bill. But not always.
>
> To reply to your example: depends on what's hiding in the ... :)
The problem here is that ARRAY_SIZE() gives you an size_t, so the
compiler might complain about comparing signed int with unsigned size_t.
Thus if i is only used as array index in the "..." part, I think it's
fine to use size_t for i here.
Thomas
