THIS IS THE VOID SECTION, ITS CONTENTS ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE PART OF THE SECURE CODING STANDARDS.

By definition, the types intmax_t and uintmax_t are capable of representing any value representable by any other types of the same signedness.  By using these types, the danger of truncation associated with the ambiguities of a change in platform or architecture, e.g. IA-32 to x86-64, can be mitigated.

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