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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:24:18 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline
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i believe that is why limbo just has "byte" which is unsigned,
no options.  get's those bugs out before they get in.

brucee

On 1/17/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > What about Brdstr? it seems to me a superset of Brdline and it returns
> > a char *....
>
> perhaps it was added later and they didn't think of that?
> i'm not sure it makes a big difference.
> the whole char*/uchar* interaction is bad though.
> uchar* is important to ensure no sign-extension,
> but it isn't compatible with the str* functions, and explicit casts
> can mask mistakes.