From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-09-11T12:37:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57124] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8890] [PATCH] Eliminate less-than-zero checks for unsigned variables

2013/9/11 nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) <nobu@ruby-lang.org>:
> Issue #8890 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).
>
> Currently we don't assume C99, but C89.

According to K&R 2nd edition, size_t is unsigned.

I guess you are confusing with older Unix such as 4.3BSD.

4.3BSD (1986) uses (signed) long as size_t.
(4.3BSD Reno (1990) uses unsigned int, though.)
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Tanaka Akira