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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Dynamic loading progress |
Date: | Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:44:08 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 |
Philipp Stephani wrote:
Maybe not likely, but not impossible.
I've never run into it, and have never heard of anyone running into it. In contrast, there are a few machines without int64_t -- though admittedly rare, we might as well not impose obstacles to porting to them if it's easy, which it is here.
intmax_t is not the only alternative. We could also use 'long long int'. That's also portable to any C99 host, and should be just as well supported as intmax_t is (it has printf formats too). 'long long int' has been around for longer than intmax_t has, so in that sense it's a more-conservative choice.
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