Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 20:46 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > >> If reiserfs is using it in wrong place, fix the reiserfs. If you are >> reading some file system variable, then you should use grub_uintN_t to >> specify storage size in bits. > > OK, I'll have another look at the code. > >> size_t is usually used as common index or offset (or size) to some >> buffer. size_t is returned by sizeof(). It is meant to be optimal size >> for platform. Eg. on 64bit memory bus it is 64bit and on 32bit memory >> bus it is 32bit. What grub is doing here is just defining yet another >> type for the same thing. >> >> Google for size_t if you want to find out more about it. > > I know what it is. I believe int should be as good as size_t for most > purposes is we are not working with very large structures or read > gigabytes of data from files at once.
Perhaps, but it doesn't hurt either. I think it is a good thing to have a type such that it is clear what kind of variable is used. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
