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glenn@ready.com (Glenn Kasten) writes:

: <limits.h> is supposed to define MB_LEN_MAX.  Is it permissible for a
: conforming implementation to define MB_LEN_MAX in terms of another
: type, where that other type is not declared in <limits.h>?  In other
: words, do header files have to be complete in themselves, or can they
: require other header files to also be included, in order to be
: usable?

It doesn't matter whether the include files even exist, as long as
the compiler understands

	#include <limits.h>

to define the proper symbols, without any further effort being
required of the programmer.  So you cannot require him to
include anything else.  It is perfectly OK for the limits.h file
(assuming the compiler doen't have it built in, and actually does
read an actual file of C code), to contain its own #includes to include
whatever it needs.

	hendrik