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Re: SIZE_MAX


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: SIZE_MAX
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:40:13 +0200
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Bruno, what do you think about simply deprecating the size_max module?
>
> This would cause problems in libintl. The intl/ directory, when shipped
> as part of a package that used gettextize, should not create its own copy
> of stdint.h. But the intl/ directory contains vasnprintf.c, which
> depends on xsize.h, which needs a definition of SIZE_MAX. For this reason,
> xsize.h arranges to get a correct SIZE_MAX in the cheapest possible way.

Ok, that makes sense.  I note that xsize.h does not include size_max.h.
Should it?  Perhaps size_max.h does not make sense.

/Simon




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