Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

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  > Again, as an example, it's enough for a pointer to be used as a return
  > value on a 64-bit platforms, which are not at all uncommon, or for a
  > 'long long' to be used as a return value on any platform, for *visible*
  > breakage when such a function is called through an implicit function
  > declaration even in the most forgiving of conditions.

Would you please show an example for the pointer on a 64-bit platform?
And one for `long long'?  I'd like to see what sort of usage would
have this problem.

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