[dfbrown]

Despite the fact that signed overflow/underflow is undefined behavior I'm pretty sure that many more bugs have resulted from unsigned underflow than signed overflow or underflow. When working with integers you're usually working with numbers relatively close to zero so it's very easy to unintentionally cross that 0 barrier. With signed integers it is much more difficult to reach those overflow/underflow limits.

[nickff]

But you have to balance the probability of a problem with its severity. I do a lot of work in C with pointers and arrays, and there are many situations where I select unsigned ints because (, although problems are more likely,) there are less likely to cause a memory read or write error (for my application, though not necessarily for others). I also often use unsigned when I am doing math that includes logs, because I am less likely to cause a math error.

I would like to be clear that I agree with your assessment for most situations, with some exceptions.