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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:23:06 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpfs dumpfs.c
Message-ID:  <20030120111631.F21213-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301192359.h0JNx2VZ002495@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:48:25 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
>
> > Only C programmers.  It also fails in the int is 17-31 bit cases, and on
> > systems where longs are 32 bits and int32_t happens to be implemented as
> > long.
>
> Since we're POSIX programmers, we have additional knowledge about the
> data types in question (specifically, that int is no narrower than 32
> bits).

Utilities like dumpfs dont require the latest version of POSIX; they can
run on any system with a C compiler, including on ones like FreeBSD_5.0
which don't fully support the latest version of POSIX.

Bruce


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