> If that periodically-threatened pdp10 port (or some other off-size > port) ever appears, it's not likely to care about the size that > appears in some other environment (unlike for on-disk structures) and > using an explicit size will if anything make life more complicated.
Especially if it's a size that doesn't exist on that port. Is uint32_t "32 bits" or "at least 32 bits"? THe former may well not exist on a pdp10 port. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B