[Toybox] dd cleanup notes

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:02 AM, James McMechan
<james.w.mcmechan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

(fwiw, in feedly there tends to be nothing on the blog for months and
then several months show up at once.)

> 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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