commit f0074372928829835adf6aa2dde9af712097c7c0 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Wed Jun 19 08:14:59 2019 -0400
Further clarify our clarification about the type of POSINT --- src/lib/conf/conftypes.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h b/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h index b03234b62..e66ab3d5a 100644 --- a/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h +++ b/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h @@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ typedef enum config_type_t { typedef union { char **STRING; char **FILENAME; - int *POSINT; /* yes, really: Even though the confparse type is called - * "POSINT", it still uses the C int type -- it just enforces - * that the values are in range [0,INT_MAX]. - */ + int *POSINT; /* yes, this is really an int, and not an unsigned int. For + * historical reasons, many configuration values are restricted + * to the range [0,INT_MAX], and stored in signed ints. + */ uint64_t *UINT64; int *INT; int *INTERVAL;