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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: gcc 3.03 and libc sources
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:46:37 -0600 (CST)
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> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > > No. We have type->stubinfo->struct_length as signed. 
> > 
> > This sounds like a bug ... maybe we should just fix system.h to
> > make it unsigned.
> 
> It's probably best.
> 
> > I don't see any reason why a struct_length would ever be 
> > negative ...
> 
> The reason might be some more whining elsewhere...

I did see the a declaration in chkv2prg.c also (as a integer) but
no comparisons so maybe it doesn't complain...

If the string "unsigned" was as short as "int" I'll bet many of these
problems wouldn't happen :-)