Re: [NSE patch] patch for pack/unpack to use platform independant types

[Sven Klemm <sven () c3d2 de>]

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Fyodor wrote:
| On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:02:35AM +0200, Philip Pickering wrote:
|> +
|> +#ifndef HAVE_INT32_T
|> +#define HAVE_INT32_T
|> +typedef signed long int32_t;
|> +#endif
|> +
|> +
|> +#ifndef HAVE_INT64_T
|> +#define HAVE_INT64_T
|> +typedef signed long long int64_t;
|> +// typedef __int64 int64_t; // use instead?
|> +#endif
|
| Have you researched whether "signed long" is 32 bits on all Windows
| platforms (including 64-bit platforms) and that "signed long long" is
| always 64 bits?  Have you researched whether Windows provides type
| definitions with a more explicit bitwidth guarantee?
|

According to MSDN those types do not differ on 32-bit vs 64-bit. But
Microsoft C++ also has __int8, __int16, __int32 and __int64. Using
those types is probably better.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc953fe1.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s3f49ktz.aspx

Cheers,
Sven


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Sven Klemm
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