question on limits.h

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun May 29 10:07:00 GMT 2005


On May 27 14:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> My reading of POSIX says that LLONG_MIN and friends must always be defined, and 
> not just when the version of C is new enough: 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/limits.h.html
> At any rate, I was surprised when I noticed that coreutils was redefining 
> ULLONG_MAX because it couldn't find it in limits.h.

Yup, your observation looks correct to me...

> 
> 2005-05-27  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
> 
> 	(LLONG_MIN, LLONG_MAX, ULLONG_MAX): Always define.

...in contrast to your ChangeLog entry.  Applied, though.


Thanks,
Corinna

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