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Re: sized types, and ridding ourselves of them

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Mon Oct 20 01:41:41 1997

To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "19 Oct 1997 14:27:36 EDT."
             <t53ra9h38x3.fsf@rover.cygnus.com> 
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 01:40:24 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

>>> Also, while you are at it - check the gssapi library - it has sized types
>>> in there as well...
>
>Unfortunately, due to the way the spec is written, this is
>unavoidable.  This sucks, and I tried to get the working group to fix
>it, but I failed.

And doesn't the use of RPC (GSS-RPC) sorta require sized typed, anyway?
That's not a reason to expunge them everywhere else, though :-)

--Ken

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