Re: [atlas-devel] anybody know of need for C89 compliance?

[john s. <sk...@us...>]

> 
> Who would demand this?  No one in the Windows world cares about C99.  The only folks I know who want MSVC to support C99 are HPC developers who still think Windows support matters.
>  

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9610747/which-c99-features-are-available-in-the-ms-visual-studio-compiler

> I have no idea why anyone would want long long anyhow.
> Use intptr_t instead.
> 
> 
> "long long" must be at least 64-bits, regardless of how wide pointers are.  On a 32-bit OS, you would see sizeof(long long)=2*sizeof(intptr_t), no?

Sure. Is there a HPC computing platform that isn’t 64 bit?

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