Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] mm: Section numbers use the type "unsigned long"

Andrew Morton [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:06:54 +0200 Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] wrote:

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Le 14/06/2019 à 21:00, Andrew Morton a écrit :

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On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:01:09 +0200 David Hildenbrand [off-list ref] wrote:

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We are using a mixture of "int" and "unsigned long". Let's make this
consistent by using "unsigned long" everywhere. We'll do the same with
memory block ids next.

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-	int i, ret, section_count = 0;
+	unsigned long i;

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-	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned long i;

Maybe I did too much fortran back in the day, but I think the
expectation is that a variable called "i" has type "int".

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Codying style says the following, which makes full sense in my opinion:

LOCAL variable names should be short, and to the point.  If you have
some random integer loop counter, it should probably be called ``i``.
Calling it ``loop_counter`` is non-productive, if there is no chance of it
being mis-understood.

Well.  It did say "integer".  Calling an unsigned long `i' is flat out
misleading.

I always thought `i` was for loop `index` not `integer`.

But I've never written any Fortran :)

cheers