On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:02 AM, James McMechan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> longstanding issue I blogged about recently at >> http://landley.net/notes-2016.html#10-07-2016 and the tl;dr of which is >> "long being 32 bits on 32 bit systems is kinda awkward". I might switch > Slight glitch, no http://landley.net/notes-2016.html#10-07-2016 it > seems to stop at 2016-06-29
(fwiw, in feedly there tends to be nothing on the blog for months and then several months show up at once.) > And the wonderful hassle of standards continues http://xkcd.com/927/, > recall that K&R which was I believe first and for a long time the > definitive book stated that pointers could always fit in a "int", it > seemed to take forever to get stdint.h where you could get a int8_t > without your own header... > of course that is only needed for files or protocols shared with other > computers ;) > I am feeling old, I remember the joy of upgrading to ANSI C (C89) ~27 years > ago > What will be next... long long being int128_t? > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > Toybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
