Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the report and patch. > What version of HP-UX (and, if possible, the compiler) is that? > It must be rather old.
Come to think of it, since we want the code to stay portable to C89, then we can't use switch (V) ... when V is of type off_t. This is because off_t is typically 'long long int', and C89 (which lacks 'long long int') does not require support for a switch whose expression is of type 'long long int'. Also, I suspect that many would-be C99 compilers might have trouble with this usage, since it's pretty rare to have a switch (off_t). I suppose I should add a test to AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT to catch this particular diagnostic. But even that wouldn't cure this particular problem, since the code doesn't depend on HAVE_LONG_LONG_INT. Sigh. I'd say we should give up on this particular battle, and just rewrite the 'switch' to if-then-else, as Matthew Woehlke suggested.
