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2023 Sep 05
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[PATCH nbdkit] server: Move size parsing code (nbdkit_parse_size) to common/include
...t write integer literals of
that type, even though it behaves integral in every other aspect).
We're kind of in a frozen state where making intmax_t larger than 64
bits will break more programs than expected because it has ABI
implications:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21265462/why-in-g-stdintmax-t-is-not-a-int128-t
My personal preference is to avoid intmax_t, as it has too much
baggage (the risk of future widening, vs. NOT being the widest type
after all), similar to how size_t already has baggage. In short,
having something that is not platform specific is easier to reason
about (for th...