Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:02 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Perhaps, but it doesn't hurt either. I think it is a good thing to >> have a type such that it is clear what kind of variable is used. > > I mean, we can have the type, but make it 32-bit on all systems. > Anyway, the warnings have been fixed. In some cases, grub_size_t was > used for offsets, which is wrong because we want to support large files > on 32-bit systems. > > I think I'll try to make grub_size_t 32-bit everywhere and see if it's > going to make any difference or help discover some issues.
Please don't. I'd rather stick to integers, such change will only slow down GRUB with no gain. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
