On April 27, 2015 9:58:37 AM CEST, "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k...@shike2.com> wrote: > >> >> GCC and Clang define long as 64-bits by default for x86_64, AArch64, >> and many other 64-bit target architectures, which is wasteful for >> Unicode code points. > >Uhmmm, so do you propose don't use long arrays ever? because in >some implementations long may be 4, but in others may be >8. We also should forbid int arrays for the same reason. >Maybe we should send a proposal to the C commite with this >proposal. > >Regards,
Yes, the "good old types" are not very specific about their length. That is why someone previously proposed stdintint.h's uint32_t for Unicode in st.
