time to get rid of unsigned?

From: John Harrison (john_andronicus_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:10:56 -0000

I knew that unsigned integral data types were the cause of scads of mostly
spurious warning messages, but I didn't realise that they were a security
risk too (see here
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Feb/1009067.html). All for one
measly extra bit.

So has the time come for C++ to deprecate unsigned integral types?

john

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