[Help-gnutls] Recognising error codes with an unsigned size_t

[Michael Weiser]

Hello,

I'm writing a small program using gnutls and its gnutls_record_{recv,send}()
interface. They return a size_t which holds either the number of bytes
transferred or a negative error code.

But on Mac OS X size_t is an unsigned long which gives me grief when
trying to recognise an error code as such.

For a simple read() call this is straightforward to fix: Instead of

        if (bytes < 0)

I now use

        if (bytes == -1)

Obviously this doesn't work for gnutls error codes which may range from
-1 to -65500. Something like

        if ((signed long)bytes < 0)

seems just as wrong to me. Am I missing the obvious here?
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Thanks,
Micha