Hello folks!

Can someone explain me, why functions in e.g. sq_read.c and sq_write.c have
such strange handling of their return values? Writing uses sword types,
which is more or less straight forward. But reading uses dword types and
does really ugly (imho) things to report errors; it typecasts (-1) into
unsigned types, which I would consider as bad thing[tm].
Well, it's working as far as I can see, but why is it that way? Has anyone
ever considered to change Reading return values to sword or similar to make
them the same as the ones for Writing (and to avoid the aforementioned
typecasting)?!


Regards,
Gerrit

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