On 27-Nov-2007 Michael Lorenz wrote:
> is there a good reason why OF handles, node numbers etc. are  
> represented as int in our code? As far as I can tell using a signed  
> type here only causes trouble since at least node numbers may well  
> have the upper bit set.

I personally allways want to make them uint32_t, but the rest of the code all
specifies it as int, so I've been just cargo-culting that around.

However, I think it would be better if we instead did what uwe suggests, and
create things like phandle_t, ihandle_t, etc etc.  It would improve readability
too.  We could also define some simple macros like VALID_PHANDLE(x) that would
prevent people from doing things like >0.  (well, not prevent, but encourage)

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