On 07/13/2016 03:45 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/13/2016 01:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Gnulib doesn't have a replacement <limits.h> at the moment, > > As the bug is low-priority, it might suffice to document the problem. I > installed the attached to do that. >
> +++ b/doc/posix-headers/limits.texi
> @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1 with gcc.
> The macros @code{WORD_BIT}, @code{LONG_BIT} are not defined on some
> platforms:
> glibc 2.11 without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9.
> @item
> +The macro @code{SSIZE_MAX} has the wrong type,
> +albeit with the correct value:
> +glibc 2.24.
> +@item
Only 32-bit glibc is buggy; 64-bit glibc is okay.
I suppose we should do a similar patch for 64-bit OSX, which has
<stdint.h> declaring SIZE_MAX with the wrong type (unsigned long long,
while size_t is merely unsigned long). But at least there, we already
have a replacement stdint.h.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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