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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:40:34 +0200
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
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* 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.