> is there a good reason why OF handles, node numbers etc. are
> represented as int in our code?  As far as I can tell using a signed
> type here only causes trouble since at least node numbers may well
> have the upper bit set.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but, what difference does it make if
some of the values happen to be negative?  They're just opaque handles,
right?

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