[haiku-development] Re: ptrdiff_t and size_t in Haiku/GCC

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> Datum: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:23:01 -0400
> Von: Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko+haiku@xxxxxxxxx>

> While looking through the target headers for GCC, I noticed that the
> language data type macros for ptrdiff_t and size_t are defined as
> follows for Haiku:
> 
> #define SIZE_TYPE "long unsigned int"
> 
> #define PTRDIFF_TYPE "long int"
> 
> Should these be "unsigned int" and "int" respectively?  This mostly
> came to mind due to the new wchar changes, which had me looking
> through these files a bit. The defines of "unsigned int" and "int"
> seem like the most common setting for other operating systems, but I
> figured I'd ask around in case I'm overlooking something obvious.

"long" works for both 32 and 64 bit architectures -- in fact they have to be 
"long" on 64 bit architectures -- so changing it wouldn't do any good; 
massively break binary compatibility even.

CU, Ingo

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