Proposal: shoot vint64 through the head

[Mark Atwood]

In general yes, ESR and I share the policy of "if we need a hack for an odd
case, deal with it when we have to".

So, now this is a question for Eric:  You had said "There is some fairly
nasty code in NTP's calendaring library to work around the absence of a
true 64-bit integral type."  If we ever do have to hack back *in* support
for the absence of a true 64bit, can it be done in a way that is less
"nasty"?

..m

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:51 AM Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There are many other compilers including Green Hills, IAR, ARM,
> Watcom, and a non-GCC from Wind River I can't remember the name of.
>
> I know the Green Hills and odd Wind River one are C99 with full stdint.h
> types.
> The others I don't know. IAR is primarily 8/16 bit CPUs.
>
> I would say we should follow ESR's policy of "it works for everything we
> know about and if we need a hack for an odd case, deal with it when we
> have to". :)
>
> --joel
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Daniel Poirot <dtpoirot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are lots of 'third tier' compilers and tools.
>>
>>
>>
>> GCC has the lion's share with the ARM Ltd. compiler the next nearest.
>>
>>
>>
>> For chips-which-aren't-ARM, just about all are GCC.
>>
>>
>>
>> -    Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* devel [mailto:devel-bounces at ntpsec.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark
>> Atwood
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 01, 2015 10:16 AM
>> *To:* Eric S. Raymond; devel at ntpsec.org; Joel Sherrill
>> *Subject:* Re: Proposal: shoot vint64 through the head
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this is actually a question for Joel.
>>
>>
>>
>> As in: out in the field, especially in small embedded systems, are there
>> any important 32bit targets that are not compiled to with GCC, clang, or
>> are ARM?
>>
>>
>>
>> ..m
>>
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