Re: Who owns the variable in my header file ?

From	Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject	Re: Who owns the variable in my header file ?
Date	2012-10-05 16:13 +0100
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:38:22 +0000, Angel wrote:

> The size of an int is a common one, or the order of bytes. If you write
> your code assuming that an int is 4 bytes stored little-endian, your code
> will probably work on x86 but fail on the other architectures I mentioned.
> (sparc and powerpc are big-endian, and the size of an int on x86_64 is
> likely to be 8 bytes)

No it isn't. The common x86_64 platforms (Windows, Linux, OSX) all have a
32-bit int. Windows 64-bit also has a 32-bit long (Linux and OSX have a
64-bit long).

64-bit int is uncommon, partly because it means that you have two
standard 64-bit types (int and long) but either no standard 32-bit type
(if short is 16-bit) or no standard 16-bit type (if short is 32-bit).

And even if you have an int32_t type, types smaller than int get
promoted to int at the drop of a hat.

So a platform with a 64-bit int type ends up not being able to run code
which works fine on just about every other 32-bit and 64-bit platform,
effectively being a great "unportability detector" but annoying to
actually port code to.

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        Re: Who owns the variable in my header file ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-05 02:16 -0700
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          Re: Who owns the variable in my header file ? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-10-05 16:13 +0100
            Re: Who owns the variable in my header file ? Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-05 16:26 +0000
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