Re: [PATCH v3] utf8: make utf8_strwidth() and utf8_strnwidth() return size_t

"Hardik Kumar" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon Jul 27, 2026 at 8:25 PM IST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Phillip Wood <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> I think it would be much better to remove the TODO comment as Junio 
>>> previously suggested and instead add some documentation to the function 
>>> explaining (a) why it is appropriate for it to return an int; (b) why we 
>>> must use the cast_size_t_to_int() helper to prevent overflows (see the 
>>> commit that added that comment).
>>
>> Thanks, especially for (b) above.  That needs to be stressed if we
>> are to go in that direction.
>
> Should this be documented in a new adoc file in the technical
> documentation directory?

The best thing for the new comment to do is to replace the misguided
TODO comment that led us to this exercise.