On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:29:45PM +0000, Michael Wojcik via openssl-users 
<openssl-users@openssl.org> wrote:

> > From: openssl-users <openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org> On Behalf Of Phillip
> > Susi
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 November, 2022 11:45
> > 
> > The only thing to fix is don't put your compiler in strict C90 mode.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree. While there's an argument for backward compatibility,
> C99 was standardized nearly a quarter of a century ago. OpenSSL 1.x is
> younger than C99. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable requirement.
> 
> But as Tomas wrote, anyone who thinks it is can submit a pull request.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Wojcik

Would this be a choice between backwards-compatibility with C90
compilers and compatibility with 32-bit architectures?

Is there another way to get 64-bit integers on 32-bit systems?

I suspect that that there are more 32-bit systems than there are
C90 compilers.

cheers,
raf

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