On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Andrew Talbot
<andrew.talbot(a)talbotville.com> wrote:
> msvcp60: Avoid signed-unsigned integer comparisons.
Hi, Andrew Talbot.
I find that you are working on these "Avoid signed-unsigned integer
comparisons" things recently.
I DO agree on that using _ unsigned int _ instead of _ int _(which
implies _ signed int _).
But I think using size_t maybe more standard-compliant, more
efficient, and less bug-prone, .
To hold this, I think something has to be clarified...
* The overflow behavior is instrinsic because the finite range that a
object of INT type can hold.
But It behaves different when it is signed or not. According to C Standard,
- For the signed case, once it overflows, resulting in
representing a negative value .
- For the unsigned case, once it overflows, resulting in
representing a value reduced modulo the
largest value that object could hold.
So see this example:
--- snip ---
size_t num = get_max_object_num(); // which may give a large number.
unsigned int i;
for ( i = 0; i < num; i++)
something_important[i] = vital_evaluate_for(i);
--- snip ---
For this case, though we use unsinged int ,it still may issue
problem if num >= UINT_MAX,
which will cause i to wrap to 0, then something_important maybe
assigned a invalid value, as like.
This problem may occur if using in a 64-bit enviroment, where
size_t is typeof 'ed unsigned 64bit
while unsigned int is still 32-t wide.
Some may argue that in Wine this problem will NEVER happen. I don't doubt it.
But
* since we have a cleared and more standard-compliant way (which means
less bug-prone), and
* predictably Wine will support more platforms, portable way shall be
taken it account.
So I think we should use size_t in this case.
--
Cheers,
Zhan JIanyu