[NNTP] 64-bit article counter extension strawman
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Tue Jul 26 08:06:49 PDT 2005
Matthias Andree said:
> practically, software will state minimum requirements to the environment
> - and uint64_t has been around since SUS v2 (1997) at the latest, I
> don't bother to check how old it really is.
It's been around, but it's not been supported by all platforms.
uint421_t has been around since 1999 formally, and since 1996 in drafts,
but it still isn't supported by many platforms.
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