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Remove all standard library functions that depend on intmax_t

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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.

I just wrote a first draft of a proposal that removes all functions in
the standard library that depend on intmax_t, and alos the j specifier
from the printf and scanf family:

http://www.colecovision.eu/stuff/proposal-no-ufromfpx.html

I did not touch the intmax_t type itself.

Do you see any problem with the proposal?

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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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