Re: [bug-gnulib] proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread mwoehlke
Bruno Haible wrote: Matthew, The citation in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00062.html looks like it explains why no 'long long' type exists although the machine would support it. Are you sure the machine supports '[signed] long long'? Before we engage on a change as

Re: [bug-gnulib] proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Matthew, The citation in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00062.html looks like it explains why no 'long long' type exists although the machine would support it. Are you sure the machine supports '[signed] long long'? Before we engage on a change as large as this, can yo

Re: [bug-gnulib] proposed patch to allocsa, vasnprintf for Tandem NSK (OSS)

2006-10-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Here are some proposed changes to the gnulib allocsa and vasnprintf > modules prompted by the needs of porting coreutils to Tandem NSK > (OSS), along with modernizing the code to use the newer macros like > AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT rather than the older macros like > gl_AC_TYPE_LO