Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:23:06 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpfs dumpfs.c Message-ID: <20030120111631.F21213-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200301192359.h0JNx2VZ002495@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:48:25 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said: > > > Only C programmers. It also fails in the int is 17-31 bit cases, and on > > systems where longs are 32 bits and int32_t happens to be implemented as > > long. > > Since we're POSIX programmers, we have additional knowledge about the > data types in question (specifically, that int is no narrower than 32 > bits). Utilities like dumpfs dont require the latest version of POSIX; they can run on any system with a C compiler, including on ones like FreeBSD_5.0 which don't fully support the latest version of POSIX. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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