netdev - RE: [PATCH ethtool 3/7] ioctl: get rid of signed/unsigned comparison warnings

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Date:   Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:24:20 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Andrew Lunn' <andrew@...n.ch>, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH ethtool 3/7] ioctl: get rid of signed/unsigned comparison
 warnings

From: Andrew Lunn
> > -	while (arg_num < ctx->argc) {
> > +	while (arg_num < (unsigned int)ctx->argc) {
> 
> Did you try changing ctx->argc to an unsigned int? I guess there would
> be less casts that way, and it is a more logical type for this.

My favourite solution is to use '+ 0u' to force the signed
integer to unsigned.
Less likely to hide another bug than the cast.

But changing the type is better.
I just wish they'd fix gcc so that it didn't complain
if you'd just done a test that excluded negative values.

	David

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