From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <4a5af3e435f7af021644e8751db1e8e6@quintile.net>
References: <ed9454dde8d6ea418f09082ca95ce43e@hamnavoe.com>
	<4a5af3e435f7af021644e8751db1e8e6@quintile.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:59:54 +0000
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5hA5HS5H-dASc+7m_TO39yw9h4VCBia3og8XEEC0HjBSw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!
Topicbox-Message-UUID: e021b6d0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

It was changed in Ritchie's own compiler in v7 as I noted earlier.
It was that, use long, or limit your sizeof'd data to half the 16-bit
address space.

On 22 November 2012 11:54, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> I wish I had been in the standards meeting with a big stick when somone
> suggested sizeof() returned an unsigned.
>
> No doubt somone will pipe up and explain why its a very good idea, but it
> still annoys me.