On Mon, 13 Sep 2021, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
A) If we drop the < 64 bit requirement (1), we can introduce CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS_LARGE etc that use a (guaranteed) 64 bit type and we double room for protocols, which should be enough for the forseeable future.
I think we can do it this way. If it took us more than 23 years to reach 32 protocol bits, I would expect us to need much longer than another 23 years to fill up 64 bits. And even if we would fill up those bits in a very distant future I think we can postpone that problem and handle it then.
We could even do it so that we only support CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS_LARGE if indeed there's a 64 bit type present and just not support those protocols for systems without. At least to start with.
Does anyone reading this know of or use libcurl in a system that doesn't provide a 64 bit data type?
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