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Re: Resurrecting Missing Methods in inttypes.h


On Apr  2 14:54, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A long time ago, I asked about adding the missing methods
> in inttypes.h. The thread meandered and never came to
> a conclusion. It is here:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg00626.html
> 
> I **THINK** the consensus was that:
> 
> + we want individual bodies so they can be linked to
> and documented in newlib style.
> 
> + __int128_t is not an issue.
> 
> + Cygwin is doing this with "aliases"
> 
>   imaxabs = llabs
>   imaxdiv = lldiv
>   strtoimax = strtoll
>   strtoumax = strtoull
>   wcstoimax = wcstoll
>   wcstoumax = wcstoull
> 
> It looks like the FreeBSD implementation does **NOT*
> depend on any underlying size assumptions.
> 
> I would like to propose merging the FreeBSD implementations

Patches rule... :)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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