Re: [Cvs-dev] Re: [Cvs-test-results] Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.

[Jim Hyslop]

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Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden> writes:
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>>but 'long long' is NOT available.
> 
> 
> That's weird, since it's been part of the C standard for 7 years.  Are
> the Microsoft Windows C compilers that far behind the times?

PMFJI - I'm the one who originated the request.

Partly that, and partly we are currently targeting an old compiler to
begin with (it predates C99).

> Or
> perhaps they just need to set some compiler switch to make 'long long'
> available?  Or can you just ask them to upgrade to a recent-enough
> compiler?  I vaguely recall that if they use Visual C++.NET 2002 or
> later, it should work.

This is a reasonable suggestion, after all the compiler is 8 years old.
However it requires converting the project files and possibly updating a
lot of the compiler options. Not an unreasonable thing to do, but it
just means someone has to find time to do it.

>>This means that HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined and intmax_t
>>is indeed __int64, so sizeof(INT) is greater than sizeof (long int).
> 
> 
> The patch is not reasonable by itself, since it will cause a 32-bit
> strtol to be used to implement what is supposed to be a 64-bit
> strtoimax.  Hence you will get obscure errors at runtime if you use
> that patch to defeat the compile-time checking.

Hmmm, yes, I had a closer look at the function and I see what you mean.
OK, let me have another kick at this and see if I can come up with a
better solution.

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