• David Friedman (23/23) Feb 18 2007 Many of the Phobos modules that interface C currently use 'int' and
• Sean Kelly (5/30) Feb 18 2007 For what it's worth, Tango has a module called tango.stdc.config which
• Gregor Richards (4/29) Feb 18 2007 I was arguing for this to make bcd.gen more robust, but everybody shot

David Friedman <dvdfrdmn users.ess-eff.net> writes:

Many of the Phobos modules that interface C currently use 'int' and 
'uint' when the actual C declaration is 'long' or 'unsigned long'.  This 
works 32-bit sytems, but not for most 64-bit sytems.

Should there be a standard definition for the C long and unsigned long 
types? My current solution is to add 'Clong_t' and 'Culong_t' to the 
std.stdint module:

     version(GNU)
     {
	import gcc.builtins;
	alias __builtin_Clong Clong_t;
	alias __builtin_Culong Culong_t;
     }
     else /* For DMD: */ version(X86_64)
     {
	// Needs more conditionals for LP64 vs. LLP64...
	alias long Clong_t;
	alias ulong Culong_t;
     }
     else
     {
	alias int Clong_t;
	alias uint Culong_t;
     }

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

David Friedman wrote:
 Many of the Phobos modules that interface C currently use 'int' and 
 'uint' when the actual C declaration is 'long' or 'unsigned long'.  This 
 works 32-bit sytems, but not for most 64-bit sytems.
 
 Should there be a standard definition for the C long and unsigned long 
 types? My current solution is to add 'Clong_t' and 'Culong_t' to the 
 std.stdint module:
 
     version(GNU)
     {
     import gcc.builtins;
     alias __builtin_Clong Clong_t;
     alias __builtin_Culong Culong_t;
     }
     else /* For DMD: */ version(X86_64)
     {
     // Needs more conditionals for LP64 vs. LLP64...
     alias long Clong_t;
     alias ulong Culong_t;
     }
     else
     {
     alias int Clong_t;
     alias uint Culong_t;
     }

For what it's worth, Tango has a module called tango.stdc.config which 
defines the symbols c_long and c_ulong.  stdint sounds like a good place 
  for these decls if an existing module is preferred.


Sean

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

David Friedman wrote:
 Many of the Phobos modules that interface C currently use 'int' and 
 'uint' when the actual C declaration is 'long' or 'unsigned long'.  This 
 works 32-bit sytems, but not for most 64-bit sytems.
 
 Should there be a standard definition for the C long and unsigned long 
 types? My current solution is to add 'Clong_t' and 'Culong_t' to the 
 std.stdint module:
 
     version(GNU)
     {
     import gcc.builtins;
     alias __builtin_Clong Clong_t;
     alias __builtin_Culong Culong_t;
     }
     else /* For DMD: */ version(X86_64)
     {
     // Needs more conditionals for LP64 vs. LLP64...
     alias long Clong_t;
     alias ulong Culong_t;
     }
     else
     {
     alias int Clong_t;
     alias uint Culong_t;
     }

I was arguing for this to make bcd.gen more robust, but everybody shot 
it down ... not with any good excuse, just because they're jerks :)

  - Gregor Richards