Re: source(builtin) and read(2)

[Matthew Woehlke]

Geoff Clare wrote:
> The code was just to illustrate the point that if it is possible for
> the condition (var > SSIZE_MAX) to be true then the implementation
> does not conform to the requirement that SSIZE_MAX is the maximum
> value of an object of type ssize_t.

I still don't buy that. If that was the intended meaning then I would 
expect the standard to read "...maximum value of a ssize_t" or "maximum 
value of *type* ssize_t". It doesn't. It uses the word "object" in this 
one, and ONLY one, instance. If this was *not* done to create a 
distinction between representable and permissible values, then why *was* 
it done?

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Matthew
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