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Re: Why does NSArray count return NSUInteger?
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Re: Why does NSArray count return NSUInteger?


  • Subject: Re: Why does NSArray count return NSUInteger?
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:06:49 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:56:38 -0700, Dave Zarzycki said:

>As others have pointed out, this has nothing to do with Objective-C or
>Cocoa. This behavior is true of any C derived language or library. If
>this aspect of C bothers you, then please consider adding -Wconversion
>to your project's build settings (CFLAGS):
>
>$ clang -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -Os -c test.c
>test.c:2:18: warning: implicit conversion turns literal floating-point
>number into integer: 'double' to 'unsigned int'
>      [-Wliteral-conversion]
>void g(void) { f(3.1); f(-1); }
>               ~ ^~~
>test.c:2:26: warning: implicit conversion changes signedness: 'int' to
>'unsigned int' [-Wsign-conversion]
>void g(void) { f(3.1); f(-1); }
>                       ~ ^~

Though one should only use -Wconversion with clang, and not the Apple-
provided gcc 4.2, where it has a different meaning and is largely
useless (fixed in newer gcc).

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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