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Re: missing methods in inttypes.h

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: Craig Howland <howland at LGSInnovations dot com>
Cc: newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:58:02 -0600
Subject: Re: missing methods in inttypes.h
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On 08/02/2013 08:27 AM, Craig Howland wrote:
> 
> On 08/02/2013 03:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> That, and the alias implementation would fix all your concerns, as
>> long as the types (long long vs. intmax_t) have the same size. Do we
>> have targets without long long? Do we have targets with intmax_t >
>> long long? I hope not... Corinna 
> We do not have any targets with intmax_t > long long, as the standards
> require intmax_t >= long long.

That's a non sequitur.  It is feasible (although currently unlikely) to
have a platform with 64-bit 'long long' but 128-bit 'int128_t'; on such
a platform, intmax_t would have to be int128_t.

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