Re:Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility ...
by foldr on Friday June 27, 2025 @07:40AM
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Stroustrup believes that signed should be preferred to unsigned even for values that can’t be less than zero: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p14...
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Re:Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility ...
by poly2it on Friday June 27, 2025 @12:55PM
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I've of course read his argument before, and I think it might be more applicable to C++. I exclusively program in C, and in that regard, the relevant aspects as far as I can tell wouldn't be clearly in favour of a signed type. I also think his discussion on iterator signedness mixes issues with improper bounds checking and attributes it to the size type signedness. What remains I cannot see justify using the a signed type other than "just because". I'm not sure it's applicable to C.