Subject: Re: gcc-ansi -pedantic and long long on NetBSD
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
From: Gary D. Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/30/1994 17:34:46 
In Message <9410302009.AA10688@alpha.bostic.com> ,
   "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@alpha.bostic.com> wrote:

=>And i'm aware of, and agree with this.
=>
=>HOWEVER, the problem is that ANSI C give you no way of specifying
=>explicit-length data types.
=>
=>file offsets are 64 bits.  how do you specify that (using an integral
=>type) in ANSI C, without forcing 'long' to be 64 bits on 32-bit
=>machines?
=>
   Fudge it in a bit field?

                                      Gary D. Duzan
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts