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doc: mention glibc SSIZE_MAX buglet
* doc/posix-headers/limits.texi (limits.h): Document the bug.
author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
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date | Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:42:40 +0200 |
parents | 498a2211d839 |
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@node limits.h @section @file{limits.h} POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html} Gnulib module: gethostname Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item The @code{HOST_NAME_MAX} macro is not defined on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item The macros @code{LLONG_MIN}, @code{LLONG_MAX}, @code{ULLONG_MAX} are not defined on some platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1 with gcc. @item The macros @code{WORD_BIT}, @code{LONG_BIT} are not defined on some platforms: glibc 2.11 without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9. @item The macro @code{SSIZE_MAX} has the wrong type, albeit with the correct value: glibc 2.24. @item The macro @code{SSIZE_MAX} is not defined on some platforms: MSVC 9. @end itemize For @code{PATH_MAX}, Gnulib provides a module @code{pathmax} with a header file @code{"pathmax.h"}. It defines @code{PATH_MAX} to a constant on platforms with a file name length limit.