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In message <4DEBF0E7.3040304@links.org>, Ben Laurie writes:

>I note that you didn't react to my other wherein you cast from known
>type A to known type B. I supposed it would be smart to also assert that
>the cast was non-narrowing.

Well, if casting to intmax_t is narrowing I think I have bigger
problems on my hands :-)

I've spent a fair amount of time agonizing over this in Varnish and
I came to the conclusion that the my time spent trying to establish
if something narrower than intmax_t was safe would never amortize
the performance difference of printing an intmax_t vs. intN_t, so
now I just cast anything that that's typedef'ed to intmax_t and
move on.

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