On May 19, 11:28pm, kle...@kleink.org (Klaus Klein) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch
| What's the purpose of this? ssize_t is meant to be "a count of | bytes or an error indication", so having SSIZE_MIN doesn't make | sense. Nor does its only in-tree, broken use in libevent; searching | outside our tree I wasn't able to come up with a use of EV_SSIZE_MIN | except for the aforementioned regression test. The purpose of this is to make it easier to query the range of the type. (ssize_t)-1 would work too. | (I'll be the first to admit I'm somewhat late in voicing my concerns, | but I was ... busy. *sigh*) Heh. It would have been easier if that was a bit sooner, so I could remember the exact situation. From what I can remember, I searched for it, I saw that others had it too (linux, etc.) so I decided to add it. christos
