Thought these links might be of interest to the apr list too...
[but I got the original cc wrong]
At 07:23 PM 7/15/2002, Ryan Bloom wrote:
We could force the size, by using apr_int32_t. The problem that he is having, is that pointers on _most_ 64-bit machines (Windows is a notable exception, there may be others), are 64-bits long. But we are using int's, which are 32-bits for the pointers. We have the added problem that throughout the code, we pass in integers for void *'s. :-(
Transposed that statement ;-/
Pointers on Win64 are 64 bits long, just like you expected.
Both int and long remain 32 bits long, unlike what you might expect (and certainly different from Unix.)
http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/getsoftready/sld011.htm http://www.devx.com/Itanium/art_Porting2.asp
The biggest difference is the long value. Since Windows is a P64 OS, rather than the Linux PL64 (both pointers and longs of 64 bits) long becomes a rather dangerous type if you are assuming that it's interchangeable with a pointer.
When we mean a void*, we need to spell out void*. If we need to pass it through an integer, prove it, and we will consider an apr_intptr_t type, that could be nothing more complicated than a union of the appropriate int type and void* for a given platform.
Bill
