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skylabmelody on July 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing memory efficient C structs

My suggestion is straight from the C++ guidelines by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (ES.102: Use signed types for arithmetic), for reasons that you don't seem to grasp.

ChrisRR on Aug 8, 2025 [–]

There's a reason they're guidelines and not rules. Use whatever is most appropriate for your use case

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