Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!

["Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>]

> "The expression sizeof(object) yields an integer equal to the
> size of the specified object."
>
> Not "unsigned integer".  Old habits die hard.

I feel your pain.

We use lint a lot here and it irritates me greatly when it
grumbles about loss of precision in assignment
from sizeof() or nelem() to an int, e.g.

	int i;
	struct Result Results[4096];

	for(i = 0; i < nelem(Results); i++)
		memset(&Results[i], 0, sizeof(Result));

I wish I had been in the standards meeting with a big stick when somone
suggested sizeof() returned an unsigned.

No doubt somone will pipe up and explain why its a very good idea, but it
still annoys me.

-Steve