portability of mc

[Oskar Liljeblad]

On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 07:36, Roland Illig wrote:
> Do we want mc to be able to run on platforms that have:
> 
> - 16 bit ints
> - 16 bit size_t
> - other weird system limits?
> 
> This would affect all arithmetic operations that could lead to numbers 
> bigger than 32k in magnitude.

What's the problem with using uint32_t etc in all code that would be
affected by this problem? The answer to the question "do you want to
support a system that does not support 32-bit integers" is much more
obvious.

Regards,

Oskar Liljeblad (oskar at osk.mine.nu)