an oldie but a goodie .. ISO C90 does not support 'long long'

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Wed Nov 2 22:45:31 UTC 2022


Michael Wojcik wrote in
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 ook.com>:
 |> From: openssl-users <openssl-users-bounces at 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 compatibil\
 |ity, 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.

Or use __extension__, which definetely worked by then.

 |But as Tomas wrote, anyone who thinks it is can submit a pull request.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
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|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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