Subject: Re: Tcl7.5 and NetBSD-current
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/28/1996 04:58:43
> i think you'll find that more and more os's go to >32 bit off_t's and
> will lose with his bit of (broken) code.  tcl should be `fixed', not
> our system modified to be broken.

I believe it's the standard that is broken, and should be fixed.
There's no point in defining special types when you don't provide
a methode to display them. Not only off_t is affected, but also
size_t, pid_t, gid_t, uid_t etc. It's not guaranteed that any of
those can be casted to int/u_int or long/u_long.

Waldi