"Kagamin" <s...@here.lot> wrote in message news:bhhmhjvgsmlxjvsuw...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > On Sunday, 22 January 2012 at 09:31:15 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: >> So everyone uses int, and we get messages like: "This program currently >> uses -1404024 bytes of RAM". I have strong feelings against using signed >> types for variables that are ever going to only hold positive numbers, >> especially when it comes to sizes and lengths. > > If you ignore type limits, you're asking for trouble. Imagine you have 2 > gigs of ram and 3 gig pagefile on 32-bit OS. What is the total size of > available memory?
One negative gig, obviously. (I think that means it's positronic...)
