Why are the errno extern consts declared as long? #521
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The declarations in libc/errno.h are all |
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We can change that. The storage space it uses is 8 bytes. But it wouldn't matter if we coerce the type to |
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We can change that. The storage space it uses is 8 bytes. But it wouldn't matter if we coerce the type to
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