On Wed, 24 May 2023 13:56:05 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> On Windows, the basic Java Integer types are defined as long and __int64 
> respectively. In particular, the former is rather problematic since it breaks 
> compilation as the Visual C++ becomes stricter and more compliant with every 
> release, which means the way Windows code treats long as a typedef for int is 
> no longer correct, especially with -permissive- enabled. Instead of changing 
> every piece of broken code to match the jint = long typedef, which is far too 
> time consuming, we can instead change jint to an int (which is still the same 
> 32 bit number type as long), as there are far fewer problems caused by this 
> definition. It's better to get this over and done with sooner than later when 
> a future version of Visual C++ finally starts to break on existing code

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: c92b049d
Author:    Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/c92b049db7853a061ce05cebdc1fd73205ed0c83
Stats:     28 lines in 10 files changed: 0 ins; 5 del; 23 mod

8308780: Fix the Java Integer types on Windows

Reviewed-by: dholmes, djelinski, aivanov

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14125

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