[PATCH] Re: Your addition of BT_SSIZE

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Tue Aug 19 09:13:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Roger Sayle wrote:

> + /* The C type `ssize_t'.  */
> + #define signed_size_type_node		global_trees[TI_SIGNED_SIZE_TYPE]

This comment is inaccurate; it is strictly the signed type corresponding
to size_t.  I'm not aware of any requirement in POSIX that ssize_t (a
POSIX type that's so far been irrelevant to GCC built-in functions) be the
signed type corresponding to size_t.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk



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