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Charles Wilson wrote:
> I ran across an oddity in the cygwin headers today.

> <stdint.h> has
> typedef long int32_t
> typedef unsigned long uint32_t

> Now, on cygwin, there's no real harm. But from the C standard, long and
> int are distinct types, so the following:

   This is the 32-bit equivalent of the exact same problem that cause the 
template resolution failure that Marco and Tatsuro ran up against last week. 
I think we should probably add the missing 'int' to both 32- and 64-bit types. 
  Linux looks like it does it that way.

     cheers,
       DaveK

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