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

[Andrew Morton]

Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch makes console X and Y coordinates unsigned, rather than
> signed. Issues with wide (> 128 char?) consoles, seen when developing
> Software Suspend's 'nice display' are thus fixed. A brief examination of
> related code showed that this use of signed variables was the exception
> rather than the rule.

You'll probably find that all you needed to do was to convert the chars
over to unsigned, not the integers.

But whatever.

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