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Subject: Re: #include file xref philosophy
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
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> (I hope that the POSIX tests don't do things such as include only
> unistd.h and verify that something referencing off_t fails.)

I believe they can't.  Since off_t (a nice particular example, BTW)
is defined to be an atomic type, the type may in fact be literal
off_t and remain technically compliant with the standard.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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