From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Anders Karlsson" <anders@trudheim.com>,
       "LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: comparison between signed and unsigned
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:15:45 +0100
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Hi Anders.

 > Sitting here watching the compile output from 2.4.21-rc1-ac4 and
 > noticing there is a _lot_ of warnings about comparisons between
 > signed and unsigned values. The question I have is the following.
 > If all the signed values were modified to unsigned to fix the
 > warnings, how likely are things to break? Is there any reason to
 > use signed values unless a specific reason when negative values
 > are required?

The obvious question is this: How many of those warnings also occur
with the pristine source - i.e., the -rc1 without the -ac4 source. It
would probably be best to wade through the -rc1 sources fixing those
first, then worry about the -ac* sources once those have been merged
in.

Best wishes from Riley.
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