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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:02:28 +0100
> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
> 
> While I was trying to port latest sed, I have noted that djgpp's resource.h
> does not provide rlim_t.  An inspection of other resource.h files shows that
> this typedef should be an unsigned long but djgpp uses long.  I was not able
> to figure out why djgpp's implementation uses long.  Anyway a typedef of
> rlim_t is required to be able to compile certain sources.
> 
> Suggestions concerning this issue are welcome.

Go for it, and thanks.

As for the signed vs unsigned issue, it doesn't really matter with
DJGPP, does it?  Do we ever need to specify or return values that are
larger than LONG_MAX?