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Re: [PATCH] Fix type inconsistencies in stdint.h
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I don't entirely understand when people think it's ok to make sweeping
> changes for 1.7 and when they think we need to be conservative.
MHO is that 1.7+gcc4 is already such a sweeping change (e.g.
"conservative" left the building sometime last year), that if we DO plan
on any more such sweeping changes before cygwin2.dll it's better to do
'em now.
OTOH, if we DON'T actually plan on any more such changes, then there's
no reason to make changes gratuitously, no matter how Just Mean We Are.
> I think it is very regrettable that Cygwin doesn't have the same int
> types as linux and it would be interesting to see how much would be
> broken by changing these types.
"Interesting" in the sense of the old Chinese curse [*], I assume?
--
Chuck
[*] "May you live in interesting times"