[vlc-devel] [RFC] signed versus unsigned integer types

[André Weber]

>> Why is mtime_t a signed type ?
>Because this type is often used to compute a difference between two
>dates, and a difference can be signed.
right -

and whats about dates -- B.C.? ;-) they are truely exists, not for VLC
but in general.


André Weber


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christophe Massiot" <massiot at via.ecp.fr>
To: "Mailing list for VLC media player developers" <vlc-devel at videolan.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] [RFC] signed versus unsigned integer types


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008, Rafaël Carré wrote:

>> Why is mtime_t a signed type ?
>Because this type is often used to compute a difference between two
>dates, and a difference can be signed.
-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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