Re: comparision between signed and unsigned

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-05-04 at 10:32, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Sitting here watching the compile output from 2.4.21-rc1-ac4 and
> noticing there is a _lot_ of warnings about comparisions between signed
> and unsigned values. The question I have is the following. If all the
> signed values were modified to unsigned to fix the warnings, how likely
> are things to break? Is there any reason to use signed values unless a
> specific reason when negative values are required?

There has been some work done checking entries for errors in 2.4 and
fixing a few real errors. As to others, its mostly gcc being excessively
noisy by default.

If you want to work on them do it on 2.5 though