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Re: BUG in XBDd5 (preserve integral types)

To: Eric Vought <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: BUG in XBDd5 (preserve integral types)
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:34:54 +0000
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ted Baker <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, yyy@xxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
References: <m3itnnuvul.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101101740490.18237-100000@diablo.qlue-lan>
Eric Vought said:
> What happens if I (and others) rewrite all of
> our code to the assumption that size_t is <= long long, essentially by
> using "long long" everywhere, and the next standard introduces "really
> long" or "outrageously long".

You don't; you write to the types [u]intmax_t. However, that requires a
transition period.

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