small libf2c cleanups
Dave Love
d.love@dl.ac.uk
Fri Oct 17 15:05:00 GMT 1997
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:
>> Thing is, I don't know that there's really anything to change it to.
>> There's no pointer-sized-integer type is there?
Jeffrey> We could create one.
_Please_ don't change the language without consulting burley.
Especially in that nightmarish area!
Jeffrey> Also note that using them without a prototype can lead to
Jeffrey> problems on some systems.
Right, I just wanted to know if this was a real problem for the
released version that we should know about.
Jeffrey> Like when size_t isn't the same size as an int and you try
Jeffrey> to do something like strncpy (foo, bar, 5)
Sounds as though the GNU coding standard needs updating re. that
example.
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