[Toybox] dd cleanup notes

James McMechan james.w.mcmechan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 11:02:12 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
...
> longstanding issue I blogged about recently at
> http://landley.net/notes-2016.html#10-07-2016 and the tl;dr of which is
> "long being 32 bits on 32 bit systems is kinda awkward". I might switch
Slight glitch, no http://landley.net/notes-2016.html#10-07-2016 it
seems to stop at 2016-06-29

And the wonderful hassle of standards continues http://xkcd.com/927/,
recall that K&R which was I believe first and for a long time the
definitive book stated that pointers could always fit in a "int", it
seemed to take forever to get stdint.h where you could get a int8_t
without your own header...
of course that is only needed for files or protocols shared with other
computers ;)
I am feeling old, I remember the joy of upgrading to ANSI C (C89) ~27 years ago
What will be next... long long being int128_t?

Jim


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