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> It might surprise you to know that, I dont give a fuck what you think.
> 
> Ori only fixed a problem (or maybe he has not fixed anything) because I 
> investigated a problem and diagnosed a cause.
> 
> Unfortunately I have moved on from working on tcl problems and onto the 
> application I want to develop, hence the comments attached to the 
> aforementioned email.
> 
> As the email stated, 'Its unofficial and a kludge', maybe someone just 
> wants to use tcl and get on with their life (as I do).
> 
> I did not ask you to take note of the patch and stated clearly that it 
> was a means to and end and I expected people to ignore what they are not 
> interested in, If  this is a private club, then I am ok with leaving you 
> to it, just let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/25/2020 07:26 AM, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
>> no. ape should be fixed instead. we dont want to have hacks upon hacks.
>>
>> ori is working on it.
>>
>> --
>> cinap
> 
> -- 
> We need another plan

relax. we all agree that this was the wrong way to fix it, so
I put a patch in.

sizeof(ptrdiff_t) is now 8, since it'll probably unconfuse other
applications, and you can back out the ptrdiff_t stuff at your
leisure.

thanks for tracking down the issues.