Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since the main point of this API is to be a wrapper for what a C main() > would take, shouldn't its prototype mirror its prototype? I.e. we should > stick to "int" here? That's a fair-enough argument. In other words, we do not mind the upper limit of 2 billion strings, even though we do care that we can have more than 4 billion bytes in any of these strings ;-)