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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> On Oct 30, 11:40am, gwr@mc.com ("Gordon W. Ross") wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Why does mode_t need 32 bits?
> 
> | > From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> | > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:45:18 -0800
> | > 
> | [ Why 32-bits for mode_t and nlinks_t? ]
> | > 
> | > So we can actually build lint libraries.
> | 
> | I'm still confused.  Why does lint care about this?
> 
> Because it is much easier to deal with integral types being passed
> to library functions rather than promotion cases.

Surely this isn't the only reason?  I find it hard to believe that we
are changing our API because our lint is broken...

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				Jim Wise
				jim.wise@turner.com

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