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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 23:32:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: quad_t and portability
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote:

> Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the
> maximum system file size.  Then the only problem is figuring a portable
> means of printing the result ...

sizeof() perhaps?

- alex



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