[tz] dead code in zic

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Wed Mar 6 15:42:54 UTC 2013


On Mar 6,  7:06am, jonathan.leffler at gmail.com (Jonathan Leffler) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] dead code in zic

| 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?

You are claiming that MSVC has int_fast64_t and does not have intmax_t?
[I think it lacking both]

| Maintaining compatibility with MSVC in C (as opposed to C++) is a serious
| impediment to good engineering on occasion.

Looks to me like this train has already left the station.

christos


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