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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Moin, On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:48:37 Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On 4/10/07, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote: > > > Actually negative indices are used currently so it couldn't be STRLEN > > > without some larger changes. > > > > Doesn't Perl have I64? if not, it's about time we add it, since I32 > > starts increasingly to become a limit... > > It's probably much better to refactor those places where I32 gets used > for an offset to not use negative integers. STRLEN is a much better > type to use since it ends up being size_t. But what if you need negative integers, too? Expression signed numbers in an unsigned type like size_t is quite awkward. All the best, Tels - -- Signed on Tue Apr 10 20:54:41 2007 with key 0x93B84C15. View my photo gallery: http://bloodgate.com/photos PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Duke Nukem Forever will come out before Unreal 2." -- George Broussard, 2001 (http://tinyurl.com/6m8nh) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRhv5yXcLPEOTuEwVAQJYQQf+PHDvMG/fYNkTkE4NaAU3DDLg1dedQhZ3 WlU/1zn1iMDljDAFBifRr6/qbtfittwMtUR9wilEcfuzYSdHUJRRXz8BufNJfoyH qKoE50ryX10TOpiqrDe0h9xQpl625h1OXlpPjKA4gNGqwnMDL62LTUx6l/8YXy/r CRYkkg0OPfslp4Vjpa7c6010Rl/mzGY/5q+3vohx5PZxiQvExNPHgxbAhstEpexS HBRPj6sjC2dhH/5tm1z3/cFfZJQplJ29O7TxI118OwTEfHS/34f7O8eD4bCiuQXt uyiJJ60zyw05YmKhAj9Hctb2bjWxvKWElwvqs6+uj5zja4m8JmGyLA== =2MDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Thread Previous | Thread Next