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-rw-r--r--src/lib/conf/conftypes.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h b/src/lib/conf/conftypes.h
index b03234b62c..e66ab3d5aa 100644
--- 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;