On Oct 31,  6:33am, jbernard@tater.mines.edu (Jim Bernard) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Why does mode_t need 32 bits?

| On 10 30, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > Now, consider what happens when you've compiled a library with prototypes
| > in scope and you are trying to link with this library from a legacy program
| > that did not bring the necessary prototypes into scope.
| 
|   But don't you _still_ have that same problem on a machine with 64-bit ints
| when mode_t is u_int32_t?

We don't have such a machine; if we did, then we'd probably have the same
problem.

christos