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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
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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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