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Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready

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On 8/6/23 10:07 AM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 August 2023 at 14:52:40 UTC+1, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> In article <2f89490d-af9a-4cc8...@googlegroups.com>,
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.ar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> It's hard to write an MP3 decoder and, if someone has already made a
>>> working version available for free which fits in a single file, it's not a
>>> good use of my time. But these relatively trivial problems break whole
>>> programs. Some Linux users who download the Baby X resource compiler will
>>> be able to fix the compile errors quite quickly. But may will say "Oh, it
>>> doesn't compile, obviously it doesn't work on Linux".
>>>
>>> The whole point of portable programming is that it should work on an unknown
>>> target platform. But that's hard to achieve.
>> I have to admit that I haven't dug deeply enough into it to know (or care),
>> but it seems like if you can say "It should be easy enough for the user to
>> be able to fix the compile errors quite quickly", then it should be easy
>> enough for you, the developer, to fix it so that they don't have to. Am I
>> wrong?
>>
>> You should not have to re-write the whole MP3 decoder in order to
>> accomplish this (so that's kind of a red herring).
>>
> I hacked it. It's possible to write an MP3 decoder without using any fixed-width
> type (though you can forgive uint64_t). But to go through the code taking out
> all the fixed width dependencies would be quite an undertaking and likely to
> create errors. So I just included stdint.h and set the define. But it's not ideal.
> 
> The problem is that the preprocessor doesn't understand typedefs. And no-one
> thought to make stdint.h's include guard part of its public specification.
> So there's no way of knowing whether the types have been defined or not.
> 

Except that for every type in stdint.h properly defined DOES have a 
macros defined for it, the XXX_MAX macro.

Of course, some rogue header could define the type but not the macro, 
but it can be argued that such a header is broken.

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Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 02:59 -0700
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:20 -0700
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:28 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:42 -0700
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:41 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:46 -0700
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:57 -0700
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 05:28 -0700
            Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 06:01 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:49 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 12:29 +0100
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 04:38 -0700
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 12:17 +0100
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 04:19 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 20:33 +0100
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 12:39 -0700
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 22:48 +0100
            Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 03:21 -0700
              Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 11:01 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 04:36 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 12:52 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 06:04 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 13:52 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 07:07 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 14:47 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2023-08-06 16:18 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-06 16:29 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-08 16:52 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 16:37 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 16:41 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 19:07 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2023-08-08 22:32 -0400
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-08-08 23:36 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 16:02 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-08 16:57 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-08 15:09 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 08:26 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-08 15:55 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-08-08 06:03 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 14:36 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 14:03 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 01:41 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2023-08-07 13:09 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 04:59 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2023-08-07 16:53 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 08:27 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 09:44 -0700
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2023-08-06 16:44 +0100
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 17:56 +0100
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-05 14:38 +0000
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-05 15:29 +0000
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-05 17:47 +0000
        Blah, blah, blah (Was: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-05 18:44 +0000
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 15:52 +0100

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