Re: non-64bit platforms? (Re: g[u]int64 GValues (was GValue questions))

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > > right, but afaik, 64bit ints are not supported on all system/compiler versions
> > > that glob runs on. at least historically this has been an issue, which is why
> > > we special-case guint64 definitions in glib based on a configure.in check.
> > > i'm not quite sure where 64bit ints fail nowadays though, irrc, orbit
> > > has a hard dependancy on 64bit ints for quite some time now and runs on a 
> > > bunch of systems.
> > 
> > Midnight commander (even text edition) depends on glib, and it really 
> > wants to be portable to obscure systems... Try to ask on mc-devel if
> > all platforms do have 64-bit integers...
> 
> All**1 platforms with gcc do. And practicly all 'long long' using code out
> there relies on it being 64 bits, so it's unlikely that gcc ports would
> use some other size for it.

I'm afraid that mc is use even on platforms that lack gcc... This
still might be a problem.
								Pavel 
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