GSoC NCI Purposed Improvements

[Geoffrey Broadwell]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:43 -0700, jerry gay wrote:
> > Thats not strictly true. According the C standard, short, long, long long
> > and char all have defined limits (in <limits.h>
> >
> there is no 'long long' in the C89 standard.

My understanding is that we limit ourselves to C89 only because we need
to support the Microsoft Visual compilers, and that's the highest C
standard they fully support, and it makes for a simple line in the sand.

However, 'long long' is one of the post-C89 features that Visual C++
*does* support, because so many people asked for it.

So is there any good reason not to make 'long long' an allowed exception
to the C89 rule?


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