In article <199702160601.AAA02026@solutions.solon.com> you write:
> probably a Bad Thing for the language.  There's also an <inttypes.h> which
> has, among other things, "int64_t", which is a guaranteed exactly 64-bit
> type.  I reccommend we consider migrating things towards this in cases
> where what we mean is "N bits", rather than a specific name for a type.

Is there any reason not to start moving towards inttypes.h now? I think
sevreal vendors already have it (SGI? HP?). For one of my projects, I'm
already using it (and have hacked up a NetBSD version, that includes
sys/types.h and then defines the missing stuff (intmax_t, etc). A real
NetBSD version should probably just move that stuff out of sys/types.h
to inttypes.h, and have sys/types.h include it).