"Andrew Schultz" <ajs### [at] eosncsuedu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Are you saying that it won't include stdio.h if you use the compiler
option?
> If you compile with such an option and call fseek (which takes a long),
> the compiler option would have it pass a 32-bit "long".  Wouldn't this
(and
> other situations throughout the code) cause major problems?

Nope, it of course assume you link to the appropriate runtime libraries that
implement those calls in 32 bit.  Of course, this first of all assumes those
functions don't take arguments of a more abstract type (such as size_t)
already and those types are defined properly using compiler specific means.

> Additionally, gcc support for such an option is sparse and, for Alpha,
> non-existent.

Yes, on some platforms that habe been 64 bit "for a long time" it tends to
be not well supported anymore.  Other plaforms that had a vital 32 bit
predecessor such as Sparc at least did support it (haven't checked for years
though).

    Thorsten

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