From: Glenn Weinberg <glenn@cognitive-electronics.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Further limits/stdint issues
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:10:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DC760B6-F8AA-438A-9743-0266E27405C3@cognitive-electronics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141203010204.GA5440@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
> On Dec 2, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>
> The fast16/fast32 types and limits are still in bits/stdint.h despite
> not varying between archs. Removing those would make bits/stdint.h
> tiny/trivial. Aside from PAGE_SIZE, both bits/limits.h and
> bits/stdint.h would essentially have no information except
> "long/pointer size" and maybe we could even eventually eliminate them
> by having a global idea of "wordsize".
I don't think it's safe to make such assumptions. Our architecture is native 64-bit, so we define all the fast types as 64-bit.
Regards,
Glenn
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Glenn Weinberg
Vice President, Product
Cognitive Electronics, Inc.
www.cognitive-electronics.com
glenn@cognitive-electronics.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-03 1:02 Rich Felker
2014-12-03 4:10 ` Glenn Weinberg [this message]
2014-12-03 5:03 ` Rich Felker
2014-12-03 16:34 ` Glenn Weinberg
2014-12-03 17:01 ` Rich Felker
2014-12-03 21:08 ` Glenn Weinberg
2014-12-03 10:38 ` Jens Gustedt
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