Apparently unsigned types really are necessary

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message 
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> On Sunday, 22 January 2012 at 09:31:15 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>> So everyone uses int, and we get messages like: "This program currently 
>> uses -1404024 bytes of RAM". I have strong feelings against using signed 
>> types for variables that are ever going to only hold positive numbers, 
>> especially when it comes to sizes and lengths.
>
> If you ignore type limits, you're asking for trouble. Imagine you have 2 
> gigs of ram and 3 gig pagefile on 32-bit OS. What is the total size of 
> available memory?

One negative gig, obviously. (I think that means it's positronic...)