Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:48:38 -0700

> 
> The bottom line is that unsigned types should be used only in
> the very few cases where they are essential to 
> faithfully represent raw hardware values.
> 

I find that unsigned types are quite useful for situations where
the operand must never be negative. For example, with array
indexes this improves performance and simplifies the code when
range checking because only one side of the range check need be
done. Of course, I can't expect that everyone will agree :-)

Jeff

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System