<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Alan Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com" target="_blank">apb@cequrux.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Arthur David Olson wrote:<br>
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The code in question dates back to when "long" was the longest integer
type available with all compilers ("long long" was not universal then).<br>
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Today, intmax_t is the longest integer type. Perhaps most of the longs in zic.t should be changed to intmax_t.<br></blockquote></div><br>Does Microsoft's MSVC (which is a C89 compiler) have support for intmax_t (and <stdint.h> or <inttypes.h>)? Does the TZ code have to work with Microsoft compilers?<br>
<br>Maintaining compatibility with MSVC in C (as opposed to C++) is a serious impediment to good engineering on occasion.<br><br>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>
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