Re: adding new info to GnomeVFSFileInfo

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:09:04PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > The compiler is required to make the enum storage large enough to
> > hold the largest enum value or provide a warning that it can not.
> 
> Yeah, that is the problem.
> Before my patch, the largest enum value was strictly inferior to 2^16 so
> it could fit in a word. Now the largest enum value is > 2^16, so the
> compiler will probably use a 32bit int to store it. 
> So I was wondering if there were compilers which would use 16 bits for
> the enum before my patch, and 32 bits for it after, which would break
> gnome-vfs abi.

Doh!  I completely missed the abi aspect.  Hmm, next to impossible
to know.  The reality is that if we test it on linux, solaris, and
hpux then we should be ok for now.  Everyone else would need to test
or update all the packages for 2.2.