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Re: Public header files
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: Public header files |
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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:53:52 -0800 |
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John Calcote <address@hidden> writes:
> While I agree that standards should be followed, I find this one
> distasteful. I mean, "long long"? Is that supposed to be someone's idea
> of a scalable solution? What happens when we have 128-bit systems? Dare
> I venture: "long long long"? And please don't say we'll never have
> 128-bit systems. We've been down that road before; we know where it
> leads.
Usually by the time one gets to the point of standardizing something, it's
both too late to fix the aesthetics and aesthetics are the least of
anyone's concerns. A lot of things that make it into standards are
widespread existing practice before then, and it's too much work to change
them.
I suspect this is part of why, as you point out, the standard also
introduces int<size>_t at the same time, but "long long" is more widely
supported, probably because it's older than the standard.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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- Re: Public header files, Jef Driesen, 2010/03/16
- Re: Public header files, Peter Johansson, 2010/03/16
- Re: Public header files, Jef Driesen, 2010/03/17
- Re: Public header files, Peter Johansson, 2010/03/21
- revision control info in generated files (was: Public header files), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/03/30
- Re: revision control info in generated files, Jef Driesen, 2010/03/31
- Re: revision control info in generated files, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/03/31
- Re: Public header files, Ben Pfaff, 2010/03/03
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Russ Allbery <=
- Re: Public header files, John Calcote, 2010/03/03