Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | 1 Jun 1999 04:10:25 GMT |
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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.
-hpa
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