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commit f0074372928829835adf6aa2dde9af712097c7c0
parent c60a85d22ab87fef5a7de2fee616ad112835177b
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 08:14:59 -0400

Further clarify our clarification about the type of POSINT

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src/lib/conf/conftypes.h
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8
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git 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;