From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: small libf2c cleanups Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:05:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <447.877034992@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00753.html >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law 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.