signed vs unsigned

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 23 de março de 2016 09:53:04 PDT Robert Helling wrote:
> Anyway, my conclusion from all this trouble in the past was to _always_ use
> the signed version since this prevents the trouble. As far as I can see,
> the potential cost is that the maximally representable number is only half
> the size but this should not be a problem for us since we stay safely away
> from those limits.

That is the recommendation of the C++ committee too, the very one that uses 
size_t for a lot of things. They recommend to always use signed integers, 
except where you explicitly need well-behaved modulo-2 overflows.

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