From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 19 16:22:19 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BBD37B401; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:22:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEB143ED8; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA21888; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:21:44 +1100 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:23:06 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dumpfs dumpfs.c In-Reply-To: <200301192359.h0JNx2VZ002495@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20030120111631.F21213-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message