Re: Style question: comparison between signed and unsigned?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:38:03 -0400

Thomas Koenig wrote:
> What do other people feel? Should signed/unsigned conversions be
> avoided in new code? Should these be eliminated in 2.2? Will patches
> towards that goal be accepted if all they do is clean up error
> messages?

I really dislike signed vs unsigned conversion bugs, and would certainly
prefer that new code avoid the situation.

But patches to fix warnings will need to be carefully considered, as
it's easy to accidentally introduce new problems.

Regards,
Bill