Re: g_string_new_len(const gchar *, GSSIZE) (glib-2.0)

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:18:26PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc> writes:
> > If the GString structure uses gsize, why does g_string_new_len() use
> > gssize?
> Because conventionally whenever you pass in a "len" in glib/gtk, you
> can pass "-1" to mean "nul-terminated, do a strlen() for me"

Sorry... it was a dum question on my part... for some reason I thought
I read "gssize" = "g short size", instead of "gssize" = "g signed size".

31 bit size is quite sufficient for the next 10 years...

Thanks for the response to clear me up on that... :-)
mark

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