Re: GLib and 64-bit Windows

[Jake Goulding <goulding vivisimo com>]

Also that sizeof(long) == sizeof(size_t)

Looking at the API reference for g[u]long 
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Basic-Types.html)...
"Corresponds to the standard C [unsigned] long type"

It certainly makes horse-sense that long would be a 64-bit on a 64-bit 
platform, but I know the standard doesn't guarantee it. GCC on linux has 
a long as 64-bits. As far as I can tell, there is no 64-bit GCC for 
Windows (yet?) to compare against.

How *wrong* would it be to define g[u]long as forcibly 64-bit on a 
64-bit platform?

Jake Goulding wrote:
> I think a large amount of errors stem from the fact that it is assumed 
> that sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *)
>