Re: error compiling giochannel.h in a Win64 build environment

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

>  > Shouldn't that parameter be a SOCKET rather than a gint? _I_ am
>  > being a good little Windows programmer :) and declaring all my
>  > sockets as SOCKET as I'm supposed to, but the above then causes
>  > problems.  I'm guessing that in a 64-bit compile environment a
>  > SOCKET is a 64-bit quantity rather than 32.
>
> It can't be a SOCKET because we don't want to have to include
> <winsock2.h>. 

Is there a technical reason, or is it a question of style?

> It should be some other integer type that is 32 bits on
> Win32 and 64 bits on Win64. Hopefully this can be handled without any
> need for #ifdefs.

IIRC there is a similar issue with the routine that returns the SOCKET 
(or HANDLE) from a channel.  Its return type is gint.

rick

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