Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:33:13 +0200 |
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In muc.lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: >Followup to: <99May31.230656met_dst.140550-2@colin.muc.de> >By author: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> >In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel >> >> - A lot of programs (and I think POSIX too) require these types to >> be of arithmetic type. Unfortunately non gcc compilers (lcc, Tendra >> C, KAI C++ etc.) often don't have long long, which requires a >> structure and breaks this requirement (glibc has 64bit dev_t, that >> is where this one was discovered) >> > >C 9x requires long long, and gcc have had them forever, so I think we >can use them safely now and declare anything that doesn't support it >broken.
C9x does not even have a final draft yet, not to speak of a standard. It is very likely to become C0x too. I wouldn't call not supporting a not existing standard broken.
-Andi
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