On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Arthur David Olson wrote:

The code in question dates back to when "long" was the longest integer type available with all compilers ("long long" was not universal then).

Today, intmax_t is the longest integer type. Perhaps most of the longs in zic.t should be changed to intmax_t.

Does Microsoft's MSVC (which is a C89 compiler) have support for intmax_t (and <stdint.h> or <inttypes.h>)? Does the TZ code have to work with Microsoft compilers?

Maintaining compatibility with MSVC in C (as opposed to C++) is a serious impediment to good engineering on occasion.

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