Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:22:10 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Some kind of contextual modulo operator? References: <8baec7c1-5c5e-4391-b011-9317ff220752@googlegroups.com> <1679454a-2d88-4821-be92-a73dba4d4d75@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:22:10 +0000 Message-ID: <87mv32ccml.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0K8679nEJoc9xK0zDGe0I2YgEhs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 8 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hIFaHUYoVZycAzPklxKkRV1HcdFwzXnu3n+8xsf65MyVo+eS2xhCW9MF3NCfdpvlgsJgDuEpBfReVu4!dvMi0SWQMwItDGgqeCSX9eFmAIcyRqGfcA1ysJCGmN03jVPDFLi5wbnq2Bv3VXlBfpNd X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1700 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:123705 Keith Thompson writes: > I understand that calling malloc() as a foreign function is more > complicated than calling it from C. I don't understand why you'd > deliberately use a signed argument for a function that takes an unsigned > argument. That would be because, as he's repeatedly demonstrated, he's not very bright