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Subject: Re: PRI* considered harmful
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:32:30 +0200
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On 09.07.2011 21:22, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Bröker<HBBroeker@t-online.de>  writes:
>> On 09.07.2011 08:24, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [...]
>>> The reason I've harped on PRI* is that their existance would also be
>>> entirerly unnecessary were something like my proposal implemented,

>> A proposal that, the way it completely breaks just about every existing
>> implementation, not to mention a seriously big number of existing user
>> programs for no visible benefit, really does need to be rejected flat out.

> How does it break existing implementations?

Well, I thought I remembered him proposing to change default argument 
promotions from "at least to (unsigned) int" to "all the way to 
(u)intmax_t".  That would break just about everything.

OTOH, there's a realistic chance I misremember who proposed what in this 
rather lively thread.