Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I've just been merging bugfixes and trying to clean up the code. The > code is very old, only slightly less crufty than when I first looked at > it, and was first written with DOS in mind (I'm fixing a problem right > now in which int's were considered 16 bit so a long was used instead to > guarantee a 32 bit value... which breaks with 64bit longs.) Historical background: when I, the maintainer before Toshio, first looked at this code, it was 1987. The library had in fact been written for DOS on 16-bit machines, and was coded in pre-ANSI C of an ...er...idiosyncratic style. I ported it to System V Unix; this was five years before Linux was on the radar. Trust me, if you think it looks crufty now, you *don't* want to know what it looked like when I first saw it... -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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