Suggested rewording of warning message

Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Sat Nov 14 05:40:00 GMT 1998


Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> said:

[...]

> Since this is a warning about a test, how about this:
> 
> warning: condition `unsigned value < 0' is always false
> 
> or, if possible, this:
> 
> warning: unsigned comparison `x < 0' is always false
> 
> where x is the variable being compared against 0.

x might be an expression, not a variable. Perhaps:

warning: unsigned comparison < 0 is always false

And how about >= 0? It should be reworded too.
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