Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys tls.2

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:52:49AM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> I wouldn't say it should return an int, though: IMO sizeof(x) ought to
> be treated just like any other numeric constant in C - that is,
> interpreted as signed or unsigned as the situation dictates.  Why they
> introduced this gratuitous unorthogonality, I have no idea.  Well, maybe
> that's not strictly true... I _can_ guess.  Probably "sizeof always
> yields a positive number so we should force its type to be unsigned." 
> But that makes exactly as much sense as "4 always yields a positive
> number so we should force its type to be unsigned," which is stupid.

Because sizeof(char[2 << 31]) and sizeof(char[2 << 30]) should have the
same type.

Joerg