issue-4a0efd0cf629dfbd898411bcae5887d8be405a4e.yaml

--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
title: ssize_t type, needed for e.g. some loop constructs
desc: ""
type: :task
component: duk
release: 
reporter: sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
status: :unstarted
disposition: 
creation_time: 2013-12-21 16:23:06.675032 Z
references: []

id: 4a0efd0cf629dfbd898411bcae5887d8be405a4e
log_events: 
- - 2013-12-21 16:23:06.848152 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - created
  - ""
- - 2013-12-21 16:23:18.863128 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - ssize_t is not fully portable though
- - 2014-01-29 18:29:31.665997 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.10 from v0.9
  - ""
- - 2014-04-12 09:10:59.989273 Z
  - Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - assigned to release v0.11 from v0.10
  - ""
- - 2014-06-23 06:56:50.041306 Z
  - Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - |-
    Because ssize_t is not a standard type (it is POSIX) it may be better to use
    ptrdiff_t where signed sizes are needed.  It could theoretically be that
    sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(ptrdiff_t) but that's quite unlikely in practice.
- - 2014-07-08 23:09:31.696958 Z
  - Sami Vaarala <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - unassigned from release v0.11
  - ""