On Oct 30, 11:40am, gwr@mc.com ("Gordon W. Ross") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Why does mode_t need 32 bits?

| > From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
| > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:45:18 -0800
| > 
| [ Why 32-bits for mode_t and nlinks_t? ]
| > 
| > So we can actually build lint libraries.
| 
| I'm still confused.  Why does lint care about this?

Because it is much easier to deal with integral types being passed
to library functions rather than promotion cases.

christos