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On 6/15/10 11:21 PM, Maciej Sobczak wrote:



> In short - I think you are getting too hot for no reason.

Might it not be tempting to get a little hot because the Implementation
Permission integer types seem to have the same characteristics
as the row of C int types?
Few programmers can handle these.
The CVE around libc/strfmon in May is another fine example of that.
But newcomers will start using just familiar types if they are there,
don't you think?