Re: stdint and cygwin bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 4/3/2007 5:24 PM:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> cygwin currently defines wint_t as unsigned int (legal per POSIX), but then 
>> tries to use INT_MIN and INT_MAX for WINT_MIN and WINT_MAX.  I've reported 
>> this 
>> as a bug to the cygwin list.  In the meantime, is it worth fixing the stdint 
>> module to detect this brokenness, and redefine WINT_MIN and MAX to their 
>> correct values in this case?
> 
> If Cygwin fixes it quickly (and why wouldn't they?) then I wouldn't
> bother, but I don't use Cygwin so I'm probably not the best person to
> ask.

As of today, it is fixed in CVS (the eventual cygwin 1.7.0), but
tests/test-stdint will fail on the current cygwin 1.5.24.  If cygwin is
the only platform with this bug, then I'm okay with waiting for the next
version of cygwin rather than trying to add a gnulib workaround.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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