Re: Looking for a temporary account on Alpha
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On 02/25/07 14:33, Frank B. Brokken wrote:
> Dear Steve Langasek, you wrote:
>
>>> The intention here is to use size_t in situations where the value is known
>>> to be non-negative.
>> I don't see any reason why you should use size_t for that instead of
>> unsigned int. size_t is intended for use in describing the size of objects
>> in memory, not just for anything you know should be non-negative.
>
> Hm, well, your observation is interesting, but I'm not convinced:
>
> https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/INT01-A.+Use+size_t+for+all+integer+values+representing+the+size+of+an+object
>
>>From this:
>
> Any variable that is used to represent the size of an object including,
> but not limited to, integer values used as sizes, indices, loop counters,
> and lengths should be declared as size_t
size_t nargs;
if (parser_number_parlist(&parser, (int *)&nargs, true) == SUCCESS)
It's been a while since I coded in C, so take this for worth, but
what if you do this
s/(int *)/(size_t *)
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