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From: hls@rwthbs.uucp (H.L. Stahl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: unsigned/signed mismatch in MSC 6.0
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.070420.24813@rwthbs.uucp>
Date: 26 Nov 90 07:04:20 GMT
References: <2301@sparko.gwu.edu>
Reply-To: hls@rwthbs.UUCP
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme, RWTH Aachen
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In article <2301@sparko.gwu.edu> timur@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>I'm using Microsoft C 6.0, and I have my warnings set to level 4.  I'm
>getting an error with this expression:
>
>strlen(s)<WIDTH
>
> ...

In MS-C (and ANSI C ?) the return type of "strlen" is defined as "size_t",
which is defined as "unsigned int" in MS-C.
But
     strlen(s) < (size_t)(WIDTH)
should work ...
 

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