Signed word lengths and indexes

[Alex Makhotin]

bearophile wrote:
> When you write code close to the metal you want to know exactly what your code is doing, so all the automatic things or higher level things become useless or worse, they keep you from seeing what the hardware is actually doing.

Right. That's why I well respect the point of view of Linus on that 
matter. And his last comments on that look well motivated to me.


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