Re: int vs. long in test(1)

[James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 6:43 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > sh(1)'s test (-current/amd64) doesn't deal with big numbers (>  
> > MAXINT)
>  [...]
> > Do we want to convert the code to use strtoimax() and return a long
> > (with checks) or even something bigger?
>
> I think it would make sense to use intmax_t.  We already do that for
> the integers in shell arithmatic with the $((...)) syntax.

Isn't that wrong then for 64bit machines where int is 32 and the spec  
says "signed long" is what should be used here?

James