Re: BodyPipe size_t / uint64_t

On sön, 2007-09-30 at 16:22 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> BTW, why not make every size-related variable a signed or unsigned
> int64_t? Is this a performance optimization issue?

To mainly to get a separation when something refers to in-memory data or
external data.

It's clearer in Squid-2 where squid_off_t is used for object
sizes/offsets, and size_t / ssize_t for in-memory operations, similarly
to how off_t is used for file I/O in the standard C API.

I think doing so would make more sense to Squid-3 too. But it's not
strictly needed as object sizes/offsets is always 64-bits in Squid-3 so
it was not done. Using a squid_off_t type do help to avoid thoughts
about if int64_t or uint64_t should be used.

Regards
Henrik