[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13416) 64bit glitch

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13416 >

Benoit Hudson wrote:

>>But this patch should fix that code.  Maybe.  I agree a uint64 would be
>>better here.  The patch is for 2.0 (maybe the asserts should be left
>>out) but should be applied to the dev branch as well, of course.
> 
> Why not use the <stdint.h> required by C99 ?  Then we can use uint8_t and
> so on, and ditch the assertions which would only fail if the compiler were
> non-compliant.

I have no objections.  However this shouldn't be done for 2.0.

-jason