On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 20:46 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > If reiserfs is using it in wrong place, fix the reiserfs. If you are > reading some file system variable, then you should use grub_uintN_t to > specify storage size in bits.
OK, I'll have another look at the code. > size_t is usually used as common index or offset (or size) to some > buffer. size_t is returned by sizeof(). It is meant to be optimal size > for platform. Eg. on 64bit memory bus it is 64bit and on 32bit memory > bus it is 32bit. What grub is doing here is just defining yet another > type for the same thing. > > Google for size_t if you want to find out more about it. I know what it is. I believe int should be as good as size_t for most purposes is we are not working with very large structures or read gigabytes of data from files at once. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
