RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 19 17:30, Kai Tietz wrote:
> 2012/1/19 Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Jan 19 14:48, Kai Tietz wrote:
> >> Well, we might still need an extra-header for this, which defines
> >> types for 'long32_t'. Â As we need for LLP64 still the type 'long'. Â We
> >
> > Oh, ok. Â I guess we should underscore this type so that we don't have
> > collisions, something like _ms_long_t, _ms_ulong_t. Â The ms should make
> > clear that we refer to the definition of long in the MS sense.
> >
> > There's also the chicken-egg problem since we just don't *have* any
> > stdint.h file for 64 bit Cygwin yet. Â Fixable, but still...
> 
> Hmm, isn't gcc providing one by default?

Oh, right.  The one in /usr/include is so common that I blindly assumed
stdint.h has to be provided by the C library.

> The new header we need can be added to platform-headers and do their
> by some magic if-guards the proper type-defines.

If we use our own specific types (like the above _ms_long_t/_ms_ulong_t)
I think it would be preferrable if the file is part of the Mingw64 headers.


Corinna

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