[Development] QtCS 2017 QtCore sessions

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2017 08:25:01 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > No, not really, since it's already limited to half the full VM space. No
> > object can be larger than that. Using unsigned is unnecessary.
> 
> Using unsigned for size types is crucial in preventing signed overflow in
> pathological cases.

Using signed for size types is crucial because the API expects to be able to 
count backwards from the end and needs to report failure in other situations. 
So unsigned is simply ruled out.

There are also no pathological cases since there is no overflow.

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