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Message-Id: <1DC760B6-F8AA-438A-9743-0266E27405C3@cognitive-electronics.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:10:58 -0500
From: Glenn Weinberg <glenn@...nitive-electronics.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Further limits/stdint issues


> On Dec 2, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> 
> The fast16/fast32 types and limits are still in bits/stdint.h despite
> not varying between archs. Removing those would make bits/stdint.h
> tiny/trivial. Aside from PAGE_SIZE, both bits/limits.h and
> bits/stdint.h would essentially have no information except
> "long/pointer size" and maybe we could even eventually eliminate them
> by having a global idea of "wordsize".

I don't think it's safe to make such assumptions.  Our architecture is native 64-bit, so we define all the fast types as 64-bit.

	Regards,

	Glenn
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Glenn Weinberg
Vice President, Product
Cognitive Electronics, Inc.
www.cognitive-electronics.com
glenn@...nitive-electronics.com



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