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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by kazinator on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:21AM (#32356474)
> A lot of FOSS code has baked in assumptions about the max size of intmax_t

Would you be able to name three examples?

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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by afiori on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:24PM (#32362139)
I realize I used FOSS improperly, I had no reason to single it out; my comment reads like a critique of open source which was not my intention.

My intention was to make a good case for old code being compiled today by third parties.

But to my understanding intmax_t was introduced in C99, before widespread dominance of 64 bits platforms. So it would not be surprising that there exists code with lower assumptions about its size.

But actually I made also another mistake, the major problem had little to do with faulty logic and more to do with dynamic linking [0]

I will see myself out today.

[0] https://thephd.dev/intmax_t-hell-c++-c

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