Re: exact integral types

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Warren Turkal wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 December 2002 03:24 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > After going through that exercise, perhaps, you will have gained a greater
> > appreciation for what portability really means.

> Thank you for the explanation. In these places that warnings are produced,
> should the code call for a CARD32 instead of calling for an unsigned long or
> something like that?

Something like that.  Keep in mind though, that this code currently
compiles on both 32-bit and 64-bit without any warnings related to
long/int or signedness.  There are also printf format strings to contend
with.

I attach the little bit I have on this matter (which includes your patch).

Marc.

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