Re: Style question: comparison between signed and unsigned?

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:06:38 -0500 (CDT)

On 24 Sep 1997, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> John Alvord <jalvo@cloud9.net> writes:
>
> > Did I understand an earlier comment that cleaning up these error messages
> > in glibc detected some actual problems?
>
> Yes. Sometimes signed variables were used where unsigned were needed
> and in a some cases vice versa.
>

The why are people complaining that the warnings are stupid/worthless/an
inconvenience/whatever? Seems to me that they did their job.

Pat (compiling with -Wall until nothing gets spit back as a rule)

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