Re: BUG in XBDd5 (preserve integral types)

[Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(another redirection)


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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:55:41 GMT
From: Ted Baker <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: BUG in XBDd5 (preserve integral types)
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| These are certainly valid reasons for Microsoft to use long < size_t
| in its native Windows IA-64 API.  But that does not mean that the
| POSIX API must (or even should) make the same mistake.

Amen.

| C addresses a broader market than POSIX: it covers things like
| industrial controllers and encryption engines.  It therefore makes
| fewer guarantees than POSIX does.  POSIX is designed for a narrower
| market, and it makes a lot more guarantees about the implementation
| than C does.  This is as it should be.

Amen.

--Ted



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