Re: Bug in image code ?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 05:27 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> Signed vs. unsigned issues plague the gnuplot source quite a bit.

Yes. It's really a nightmare. Although you raise a possible 
issue below, my inclination is that we should never be using
unsigned coordinates.  Wrapping around to a large positive number
is far worse than going negative.

> And try to remember that we have at least some drivers 
> where
> 
> 	INT_MAX < term->xmax < UINT_MAX.

Are you sure?  Which ones?



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