Re: The Windows 64-bit abomination (was: FYI: portability tweak for Tru64 V4.0.)

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > the ftello
> > > substitute needs to worry about overflow only on hosts where long int
> > > is wider than off_t.  But I don't know of any such hosts and don't
> > > expect that there will ever be any.
> > Too late, Windows is one.
>
> I assume you're talking about IA-64 Windows.  But as I understand it,
> long int is 32 bits on that platform, and off_t is 64 bits, so it's
> not a problem.

Nope, x86_x64 Windows. I realize gcc isn't ported there yet, but that's 
how the VC compilers work. I'd like to hope gcc would Do Things Right 
when it is ported, but on further thought I suppose it can't since it 
would break system headers :-(.

Why would you assume IA64? x86_64 *is* after all already a viable target 
for GNU software (using the MSVC compilers on SUA, at any rate)...

Anyway, as you say, I don't think this is a problem anywhere since even 
32-bit Windows has true 64-bit data types (unlike the excitement that is 
NSK with only signed 64-bit! :-)), even MS just *had* to be different 
(as always).

--
Matthew
When on POSIX, do as POSIX mandates.