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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

when you need to add an exponential notation option to wc

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago
[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc.c#n507

The word count variable is an intmax_t, so assuming ISO C (it's GNU so probably not but whatever) it has to be at least C99 and thus support at least 64 bit long long.

Looking forward to the nine quintillion word LW posts. Wonder if I should submit a patch to make wc(1) use GMP for future proofing purposes…

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