From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preferring ptrdiff_t to ssize_t Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:36:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83sij6iivq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <542C6434.8020505@cs.ucla.edu> <83zjdfi3kn.fsf@gnu.org> <542CCEC4.5050101@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412264197 29343 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2014 15:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 17:36:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZiQf-0006xT-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:36:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZiQe-0004O7-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZiQT-0004AE-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZiQN-0002ju-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:44884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZiQN-0002jj-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCT00H00PU3F100@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:35:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCT00HPPPZ4FO00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:35:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <542CCEC4.5050101@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174936 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:04:20 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Since the variable's initializer is of type 'int', how about simply declaring > the variable to be 'int' as well? Done. > > I wish you'd discuss these issues before making changes > > The issue is so minor it didn't seem worth discussing. I assumed you thought so > too, as your recent change introduced ssize_t there without discussing the > matter either. No, my changes were radically different from r117993. I _added_ code, including the variable in question, as part of fixing a clear and present bug.