From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] strangely typed functions in standard library
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:40:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060516114034.GA22209@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f034ae0605152003x4d8ee664o4bef08473c10eef6@mail.gmail.com>
* Matt Stewart (rotaerk1@gmail.com) wrote:
> The following functions are described as accepting a Rune, but instead
> the parameters are of type long. Why?
>
> int runelen(long);
> char *utfrune(char *, long);
> char *utfrrune(char *, long);
>
Though I'm far from being an expert on that matter, I would assume
it's for the same reason putchar() takes an int.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 3:03 Matt Stewart
2006-05-16 11:40 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-05-16 15:09 ` R
2006-05-19 22:49 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-18 3:06 erik quanstrom
2006-05-18 9:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-05-19 4:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 5:03 ` geoff
2006-05-19 12:43 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 13:03 ` Victor Nazarov
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