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Re: [Xen-devel] sizeof(long) different under windows x64 and linuxx64

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] sizeof(long) different under windows x64 and linuxx64
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:25:33 +0000
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Stodden <dns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:30:47PM +1100, James Harper wrote:

> Can I get some feedback from the people-who-make-decisions if a patch
> changing all 'unsigned long's in the public .h files to uintptr_t's
> would be accepted? If not, what type should I use?

Shouldn't it be changed appropriately? That is, uintptr_t for values
that actually do, or can, hold a "pointer" value, and something else for
other 'longs'?

john

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