[haiku-commits] Re: r36072 - haiku/trunk/headers/os/support
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:25:19 +0200 CEST
Le Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:57:19 +0200, Ingo Weinhold a écrit :
> On 2010-04-07 at 22:57:39 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx wrote:
> > > Log:
> > > Define B_GENERAL_ERROR_BASE to INT_MIN instead of LONG_MIN. On 32
> > > bit
> > > platforms it's the same value, but we actually want type int, not
> > > long.
> >
> > Do we? At least status_t is int32 in BeOS, and this is defined to
> > long,
> > for whatever reason.
>
> Yeah, and that will be rectified when we break compatibility (or even
> earlier in the gcc4 build, if anyone is motivated enough to fix all
> the
> resulting warnings). Besides, errno is int and on 64 bit platforms
> long
> would be 64 bit. Furthermore int promotes cleanly to long (unlike the
> other
> way around).
Hmm int can be 64bit too on 64bit platforms IIRC, it depends on the
data model, and there are many of them:
http://www.viva64.com/terminology/Data_model.html
François.
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