[haiku-development] Re: 64 bit

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:14:04 +0200

On 09/09/2014 18:25, Mark A Hayes wrote:
> Part of what I do is write "posixy" post processing tools. On *nix I
> just do an mmap64 and apply the transformations and filters.
> Extremely efficient.

Probably much more than read()ing yes.

> Does Haiku aim for posix compliance by the way? That would make it
> easy to port our videofx library (it's a 64 bit only, C/posix
> terminal lib)

As much as sanely possible.

There are some discrepancies though (like error codes being defined as
negative values).

We do support file mmap() at least.

François.


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