Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

[Ben Pfaff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Come to think of it, since we want the code to stay portable to C89,
> then we can't use switch (V) ... when V is of type off_t.  This is
> because off_t is typically 'long long int', and C89 (which lacks 'long
> long int') does not require support for a switch whose expression is
> of type 'long long int'.

I don't understand this rationale.  C89 requires that the switch
expression be of integral type.  For C89 compilers with the long
long int extension, a long long int is an integral type, so it
should be supported.

Are there actual implementations that support long long int but
not its use as a switch expression?
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Ben Pfaff 
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