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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:24:36 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:39:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Claiming that you should index an array with a size_t is crap.

it's broken in general; there is *lots* of code which does things like
"foo[-1] = bar" (string parsers for example)


  --cw
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