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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:25:08 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (7/13): gcc 3.3 adaptions.
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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)

Yeah, the index should be ptrdiff_t :)

-- Jamie
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