Re: large integer truncation in regex module

2012-05-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/26/2012 01:24 PM, Steven M. Schweda wrote: >On VAX (a 32-bit system), it's fatal. That's worse than a warning, and I can see similar problems might happen on other 32-bit-only systems, so we should fix it. >> Generally speaking we prefer 'if (xxx)' to '#if xxx' where >> either will do,

Re: large integer truncation in regex module

2012-05-26 Thread Steven M. Schweda
Re: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/msg00154.html > [...] I think an ifdef may be used instead [...] I agree. I, too, recently ran into this problem, in my case, on VMS. On Alpha (and IA64, both 64-bit systems), the result is annoying informational messages: ALP $ cc