Re: [Bug-wget] wget 1.11.4 on interix(3.5)

[Micah Cowan]

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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hm... well, what about a check for C99 first, and then a fallback on
>> checking for HAVE_STDINT_H?
> 
> Isn't HAVE_STDINT_H a C99 thing?  C89 doesn't seem to mention it.

I thought HAVE_STDINT_H is more a configure-script thing...

By which I mean, yes, <stdint.h> is in C99, and not C89; but the
apparent reason this patch was needed on Interix (and probably on other
platforms as well) is that many environments provide C90 compilers with
extensions (such as stdint.h) borrowed from C99. This would include
GNU/Linux systems, when gcc isn't being invoked in C99 mode.

>> Or, I suppose we could consider assuming an unsigned long is large
>> enough to hold a pointer, and eschew the use of uintptr_t.
> 
> We used to do exactly that, but it doesn't work on Win64.

A most excellent point, of course. And unsigned long long is of course
not C90...

There's the other possibility, of trying to avoid casting a pointer to
an integer type in the first place. I haven't looked much at this code,
though, and honestly probably won't any time real soon.

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Micah J. Cowan
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Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
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