Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdio

[James Chacon <jmc%ksu.edu@localhost>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 4:02 PM, David Laight wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 05:42:20PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Can we just revert the past 2 commits? Changing:
> >
> > (size_t)x -> x + 0u
> >
> > does not look like an improvement to me. At least the first shows  
> > the intent,
> > the second is just confusing, specially when size_t is unsigned long.
>
> Actually, IMHO, lint is just being too picky here.
> Having to add a cast whenever an 'int' variable is passed to a  
> function
> that has a 'size_t' parameter really is just polluting the code with
> pointless casts.

They are different types though. It's a signed vs unsigned issue.

James