On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:48:53PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > MIN() is a _bad_ thing to use. It _always_ gets the sign wrong. Sorry, but
> > that's how it is. It makes people think that "oh, it takes the minimum of
> > two numbers" and at the same time it makes people completely forget
> > signedness issues.
>
> GCC -Wall warns about comparisons between signed and unsigned.
> Is that not good enough?
the header files need to be cleaned up in order to be able to use -Wall
without getting scads of bogus warnings. Some of that work has been
done but not all of it. I'll get to it sometime if no-one beats me to it.
(hint, it's the signal delivery stuff).
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