From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: small libf2c cleanups
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqhgagwedh.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447.877034992@hurl.cygnus.com>
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:
>> Thing is, I don't know that there's really anything to change it to.
>> There's no pointer-sized-integer type is there?
Jeffrey> We could create one.
_Please_ don't change the language without consulting burley.
Especially in that nightmarish area!
Jeffrey> Also note that using them without a prototype can lead to
Jeffrey> problems on some systems.
Right, I just wanted to know if this was a real problem for the
released version that we should know about.
Jeffrey> Like when size_t isn't the same size as an int and you try
Jeffrey> to do something like strncpy (foo, bar, 5)
Sounds as though the GNU coding standard needs updating re. that
example.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-17 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-14 21:03 Richard Henderson
1997-10-15 9:15 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-15 20:16 ` Dave Love
1997-10-16 2:35 ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-16 15:19 ` Dave Love
1997-10-17 14:36 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-16 15:19 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-17 12:53 ` Jim Wilson
1997-10-17 12:53 ` Richard Henderson
1997-10-17 13:57 ` Toon Moene
1997-10-18 11:26 ` Craig Burley
1997-10-19 5:42 ` Dave Love
1997-10-19 18:42 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-21 11:24 ` Dave Love
1997-10-21 11:35 ` Craig Burley
1997-10-17 15:05 ` Dave Love [this message]
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