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Re: SSIZE_MAX on ia64

From: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes at trained-monkey dot org>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com,Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh at samba dot org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:13:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: SSIZE_MAX on ia64

SSIZE_MAX must accurately reflect the ssize_t type.  It is presently
incorrect on all 64-bit platforms.  On every platform I am aware of,
ssize_t == long int (i.e. 32 bits where long is 32 and 64 bits where long
is 64).  So it would not hurt to generically use LONG_MAX, and that would
be simpler.  I think it is a valid assumption at the moment that long ==
wordsize.  If not, we could also have SSIZE_MAX defined conditional on
__WORDSIZE, which is still simpler than adding a specific definition for
particular platforms.

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