Re: Variable too large

[Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Lehotsky <apl@alum.mit.edu> writes:

 Alan> There are places in the front-end that attempt to return -1 to
 Alan> indicate an invalid or unknown size.  (e.g., they assume a
 Alan> ssize_t, not size_t).

That's a nice example of something that doesn't hurt so bad for 32 bit
targets, but is nasty indeed for 16 bit ones.  A cleaner solution
would be to use size_t and use the max value (2^n - 1) as a flag value
without special-casing any others.

	paul