Re: Fix type of loop variable in alloc_device().

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> We iterate between 0 and and the value of an usigned variable, so we
> should adjust the loop variable accordingly (not the list to silence
> GCC).
> - int i;
> - unsigned i;

If there is nothing wrong about it, then why do you change it? If even gcc 
does not complain about it.

Vitaliy.

Fix type of loop variable in alloc_device().

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > We iterate between 0 and and the value of an usigned variable, so we
> > should adjust the loop variable accordingly (not the list to silence
> > GCC).
> > - int i;
> > - unsigned i;
>
> If there is nothing wrong about it, then why do you change it? If even gcc
> does not complain about it.

More recent versions of GCC do. ;-)

And while in many cases these warnings do not indicate a real problem,
in some they do (and we found just one such real problem yesterday).

Gerald