On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
> Marc Balmer <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> A possible solution could be to use long instead of int, as sizeof(long)
>> == sizeof(void *) on 32bit and 64bit linux. But if such values are used
>> in externalized binary form somewhere (tooltalk?) it might lead to
>> incompatabilities.
>
> This is not really future portable, and I would prefer to do this the
> correct way rather than just fudging it. Is there a reason we are not
> using pointer types here and are instead using integer types?
>
>
In cases where this is important, you could also use the '__LP64__'
define to detect systems where long == pointer in terms of size.
But just globally changing ints to long is a bad idea... pointers
should be used where possible, and longs where not (on LP64) systems.
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