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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: massive type confusion [in 4.2bsd]
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 13:31:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 13:31:46 1984
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> > Description:
> > 	These files use int where long is correct and fail to use
> > 	the types defined in .
> > Repeat-By:
> > 	Lint a type-correct program that calls lseek, time and ctime
> > 	and which passes lint on v7 (not 4.1BSD, not 2BSD).  Observe
> > 	the utterly wrong and copious messages produced by lint.
> > Fix:
> > 	Edit llib-lc to use off_t instead of long where appropriate
> 
> No, don't do it!  This would make llib-lc incompatible with the manual
> pages.  That's just as bad.  llib-lc should look like the manual pages
> whenever possible.

Do it right.  Edit both llib-lc and the manual pages.

I believe that we went through this discussion about two or three months
ago.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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