[Insight-developers] Why is m_NumberOfThreads signed?

[Bradley Lowekamp]

But then all the people who just used int, would get a warning. I don't see an advantage.


On May 16, 2011, at 8:41 AM, David Doria wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>> What is the motivation for changing this? Why is unsigned better the signed?
> 
> It came to my attention because I would do something like:
> 
> for(unsigned int i = 0; i < this->m_NumberOfThreads; ++i)
> 
> and get warnings about unsigned/signed comparisons.
> 
> Also, it just seems more "correct", as it doesn't make sense for the
> number of threads to be negative.
> 
> David

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Bradley Lowekamp  
Lockheed Martin Contractor for
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine 
blowekamp at mail.nih.gov


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