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Re: Coding Standards are ignorant

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From: Stan Ryckman
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:07
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Sorry to followup to my own post.  I don't do it often.

In article <4ikh3o$2kv@sundog.tiac.net>, Stan Ryckman <stanr@tiac.net> wrote:

>(All that's needed for printing whatever_t types would be confirmation
>that they are no larger than unsigned long.  I think that allowing
>them to be larger would break ANSI even if "long long" were an
>allowed extension.)

I now think this only applies to ptrdiff_t, size_t, and wchar_t.
Other things (pid_t, for example, since ANSI has no notion of pid's)
might break Posix under such circumstances, but not ANSI, if too
large, but I make no pretense about even having read Posix standard.

><now running to edge of ring and tagging experts to jump in>

Still applies  :)

Cheers,
Stan.
--
Stan Ryckman  (stanr@tiac.net)
  (Apologies for non-responses or late responses to some posts;
  .newsrc was trashed and I'm trying to get it back to where it was.)
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