Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/10/2010 02:32 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Using the cast is the lesser evil ;)
>
>>>
>>> Of course, avoiding casts is good, too, but IMHO, not if
>>> it makes us obfuscate (even ever so slightly) the types we use.
>>
>> Well, the real point of this patch was to silence a compiler warning
>> (not that we'd ever planning on passing an indent > 2G). Given
Dave's
>> ACK, I went ahead and applied v2 as proposed, even if it does slightly
>> obfuscate the usage.
>
> Warning removal is important.
> But it can end up being counterproductive if not done carefully.
Should I go ahead and revert v2, going back to v1 which localized the
change to just one file?
This variable is not important.
It's the principle, as I tried to explain:
I'm not lobbying for further change, but merely
making sure you see where I'm coming from.