On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 09:32:28AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > I'd also note that if you're going to change things, "long" probably > isn't really big enough, that's just 32 bits (4GiB) on many ports, > and files, and hence "lines" in files, can be much larger than that, > so all you've really done is moved the goalpost. > > Better would be to use size_t -- nothing (in memory) can be bigger than > that, by definition. But you'd need to be aware of the switch from a > signed type to unsigned, which can affect how some code works. > Using ssize_t is also not really big enough.
FWIW, patch in OpenBSD was changed to use ssize_t in July last year. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=168907249732754
