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issues with recent doprnt-related changes

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 8545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8545: issues with recent doprnt-related changes
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:54 -0300

> Sorry, but I don't see the general principle.  Earlier, it was
> thought that emacs_write should return a signed value, because there's
> code like (emacs_write (...) != n) in fileio.c, where 'n' is
> signed, and signed-versus-unsigned comparison is problematic.
> I can certainly understand this point of view.

That's the point of view, yes.

> With doprnt returning size_t, though, we still have this problem.

I haven't looked at the code.  I only commented based on Eli's
description, who said that all the relevant code used size_t.
Personally, I'd use `int' for such things, since any message larger than
2GB should be a sign that something went very wrong long before.


        Stefan

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