[Interest] Signed return type of QIODevice::pos() - why?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 13 November 2014 13:45:45 Rainer Wiesenfarth wrote:
> One of my colleagues just asked the rather philosophical question why the
> result of QFile::pos() - and thus QIODevice::pos() - is of type qint64 (and
> thus signed). He had expected an unsigned type, ideally size_t or offset_t.
> 
> I was unable to find a reason, but maybe someone on the list can step in?

Because we use signed for everything. You don't see unsigned types in our API.

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