Re: BUG in XBDd5 (preserve integral types)

[Ted Baker <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| ... I expect that the problems I had durinng this hack that
| ended in a LF32 editor are similar to what whould happen with
| applications that have to live in a 64 bit environment with
| size_t > long.  I had to thoroughly check 20000 lines of code
| and introduce new types that allow to correctly handle any kind
| of multipliers and offset diffs.  Note that these variables are
| not directly bound to off_t and you cannot easily find
| them. With the editor experience in my background, I hope that
| POSIX requires size_t to be <= long.

I believe the above testimonial, and continue to support leaving
in place the POSIX requirement that the range of long be >= the
range of size_t.

--Ted