Hi Martin!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:52:37PM +0200, Landsmann, Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:57:50PM +0200, Ludwig Knüpfer wrote:
> > > Am 12. Oktober 2016 09:48:28 MESZ, schrieb Oleg Hahm 
> > > <oliver.h...@inria.fr>:
> > > > as far I'm concerned it has been an undocumented coding convention so 
> > > > far
> > > > to use `int` or `unsigned int` for iterator variables in a loop instead 
> > > > of
> > > > fixed width integer types. Does anybody object to adding this to the 
> > > > coding
> > > > conventions explicitly?
> > > What about `size_t`?
> > I don't see a reason against `size_t` - but also no good reason that speaks
> > for it. What's the rationale?
> size_t is suited best to be used for iterating array indices and never
> overflow holding them [1].
> 
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/2550799

Sorry, I don't get this. Can you elaborate?

Cheers,
Oleg
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