Re: Migrating to larger numbers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
1 Jun 1999 04:10:25 GMT


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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