On 8/2/12, Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> 2012/8/2 Corinna Vinschen <vinsc...@redhat.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> below is about 5% of the entire patch introducing __LONG32.  Reviewing
>> more than 40000 lines is far from fun, so I made a break at this point.
>> Noticable are a couple of places wher I kept long, these are places
>> where the definitions are in an !_WIN64 branch.  Also, in comutils
>> are two inline functions calling Interlocked functions.  I changed the
>> reinterpret casts for the argument to the Interlocked function to
>> LONG *, rather than __LONG32 *, since LONG is the argument type of
>> the Win32 function, in prototype and documentation.  Hope that's ok.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Corinna
>
> so patch is ok.  I admit that changes of long->__LONG32 in 32-bit case
> is of lower interest for us, but well, this is something to be done
> for consistency-reasons IMHO.  But for now let us concentrate on the
> 64-bit case, where this change actual matters for us.
>
> Thanks,
> Kai
>

Just curious about how is LONG not suited as replacement but __LONG32?

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