Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009 12:07:24 Tsutomu Yamada wrote: > > Proposal: More portable way to support 64bit platforms > > > > Short description: > > > > Current PostgreSQL implementation has some portability issues to > > support 64bit platforms: pointer calculations using long is not > > portable, for example on Windows x64 platform. We propose to use > > intptr_t instead of long, which appears in in C99. > > This makes sense. You can also review the archives for previous iterations > of > this discussion (search for "intptr_t").
Yes, I have read through the discusion but it seems somewhat faded out. This is because no platform other than Windows has 64bit pointer issues IMO. I think using intptr_t is cleaner and will bring more portability. Moreover it will solve Windows 64bit pointer issues, I believe. > You might want to add your patch to the next commit fest. Yes, I would like to submit patches for the next commit fest. -- Tsutomu Yamada SRA OSS, Inc. Japan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
