Re: [Bug-gnulib] addition: gcd.h, gcd.c

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:53:14 +0100 (CET)
> 
>   /* Return the greatest common divisor of a > 0 and b > 0.  */
>   extern unsigned int gcd PARAMS ((unsigned int a, unsigned int b));
> 
> because I've needed this in gettext in two places:
> a. inside some hash table code,
> b. when comparing two circular lists of different size.

How about if we change the signature of gcd to use uintmax_t instead
of unsigned int?  I use GCD on size_t values (see buffer_lcm in
diffutils/lib/cmpbuf.c), and size_t is sometimes wider than unsigned int.