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| From: | Matthew Woehlke |
| Subject: | Re: source(builtin) and read(2) |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:48:32 -0500 |
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Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Nick Stoughton said:As to the original question ... can a system that implements ssize_t with a SSIZE_MAX of 56k conform to POSIX?No: SSIZE_MAX is the maximum value of ssize_t; since this is an integer type, its maximum value must be one less than a power of 2.
Maximum *permissible* or maximum *representable*? The general consensus (which has included a number of quotations from the standards) seems to be the former. Can you back this up?
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