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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Preferring ptrdiff_t to ssize_t
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:49:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2abutoh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542C6434.8020505@cs.ucla.edu>

Paul Eggert writes:

 > On less-common platforms, though, ptrdiff_t works better than
 > ssize_t, so for size-related integers Emacs's portable C code
 > should continue to prefer ptrdiff_t.

Yes, please!




  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-01 20:29 Preferring ptrdiff_t to ssize_t Paul Eggert
2014-10-02  1:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-10-02  2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-02  4:04   ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-02 15:36     ` Eli Zaretskii

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