Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 13:12:32 +0200
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> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 20:35:12 +0200
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> 
> > From: "Stephen Silver" <djgpp AT argentum DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:18:06 -0000
> > >
> > > However, I'm not sure we need to push it as far as -2147483648.  wint_t 
> > > should hold everything wchar_t does and WEOF.  C99 also seems to require 
> > > that WINT_MIN is at most -32767, which seems to be sufficient both for 
> > > wchar_t, which is unsigned short, and for WEOF, which is -1.
> > >
> > > So what are the reasons for pushing WINT_MIN all the way to INT_MIN?
> > 
> > I assumed that WINT_MIN was supposed to represent the minimum
> > possible value of a wint_t.  However, the C99 standard (or, at least,
> > the draft) does not seem to say this explicitly.  Nonetheless, I
> > think it would be strange if it were possible to assign a value less
> > than WINT_MIN to a wint_t.
> 
> Yes, I think you are right.  Anything but INT_MIN would be confusing.

I'd like to thank everybody for the feedback.  stdint.h is now
committed.