Re: [9fans] Is this a bug in 8c?

["Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>]

rob@plan9.bell-labs.com (rob pike) writes:

> a) long long is not an integer type according to the ANSI C standard I
> hold in my hand.  Perhaps it is in C9X, but it's not even mentioned in
> the old standard.  It isn't a type at all as far as the standard is
> concerned.  I know other compilers came to implement it, but where in
> the 1989 standard - the one 8c was written to - does it mention long
> long?

It's not a standards violation, but it's clear that it's a bug.

> b) 8c is not "riddled" with "intentional bugs".  Be careful who you
> call snide and self-superior.  I think the strongest honest statement
> you could make as far as long long is concerned is that some of the
> operations on the long long extension are unimplemented.  That is a
> far cry from "riddled" with "intentional bugs".

Even the error message was improper, since it didn't say anything
about what the actual problem was.  Make that four bugs now.