> If this was comp.std.c, then I'd agree that such constructs may fail
> in some environments. It's not so clear that we need to worry about
> this here (this being FreeBSD)...
No, system headers should be sticklers to the standard to remain
friendly to architectures BSD won't run on but the headers might
be useful for.
I can imagine non-byte addressable floating point DSPs with
sizeof(char) == sizeof(double).
I won't complain about the headers in a machine subdirectory.
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