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Re: Remove all standard library functions that depend on intmax_t

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Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:
> At the spring WG14 meeting, there were various proposals on how to deal
> with the intmax_t problem (intmax_t being baked into ABIs makes it hard
> to grow it). One would have been to remove all use of intmax_t in the
> standard libary to get it out of the ABI. But in the end, a much more
> radical decision was made: Remove intmax_t without replacement.

Do you have a reference to this?  Did they really decide to remove
intmax_t altogether?

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2498.pdf (dated
2020-02-29) is a proposal to keep (u)intmax_t but deprecate library
functions that depend on them.  Removing (u)intmax_t altogether would
break existing code.

See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/PreFreiburg2020.htm
for some other similar proposals.

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Remove all standard library functions that depend on intmax_t Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-05-07 12:58 +0200
  Re: Remove all standard library functions that depend on intmax_t Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-07 16:54 -0700
    Re: Remove all standard library functions that depend on intmax_t Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-05-08 21:42 +0200

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