Re: PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Of course you're right about 2^31 columns, but the rest of the code used
unsigned ints as well, not because it expects 2^31 columns, but because
(if I understand the code right), the numbers can be part of escape
sequences... I'm looking at csi_m in vt.c.

Regards,

Nigel

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 09:33, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> >> Shouldn't we be using "size_t" for unsigned int
> 
> > You might be right. I was just being consistent with the other definitions.
> 
> These are character positions on a screen.
> When did you last see a console in text mode with a line length
> of more than 2^31 ?
> 
> If you go for a minimal patch then you should replace "char"
> in one or two places by "unsigned char" and that is all.
> 
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