Re: stdint_.h incorrectly assumes unsigned of 'int64_t'

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:
> > ...which I assume those who have been following my NSK woes will
> > immediately spot the flaw in? :-)
>
> Thanks, I installed this patch into gnulib:
> [patch snipped]

That looks good, thanks!

> > (This was stdint_.h from coreutils-6.4, IIRC someone had said that
> > should be more recent than patches that went in for NSK?
>
> gnulib has the most-recent copy.

Right, what I meant was to my knowledge no NSK-related patches went into 
GNUlib after what 6.4 pulled in.

> I think that if you want to continue the porting effort we (by which I
> mean, mostly, _you_ :-) should probably just come up with the patches
> that work for you, and we can worry about integrating them into the
> upstream version later.

That's fine, as long the people that know the code much better than I 
are still willing to offer advice. You just usually beat me to patches. 
:-) (In this case, I thought the patch was both obvious and trivial, and 
apparently I was right. :-))

Although to be honest, I'm also hoping that the end is in sight. 
Already, thanks to your wonderful support so far, I am much further 
along in establishing a modern (and mostly-OOTB) GNU toolchain than before.

> The simplest thing for you may be to upgrade to Tandem's current
> compiler, which doesn't seem to have these problems.

I'm not sure if that's an option, given that I don't have control over 
the machine. I have admin access so I can install software that I have, 
but I don't know that I can get software from HP (and more importantly, 
*without paying for it*), or that people would appreciate something as 
drastic as upgrading the compiler. If I get a chance, I'll keep in mind 
to bring this up, but I'm not optimistic.

--
Matthew
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