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

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/1/08 14:25, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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'?

We could just call it xen_long or xen_ulong. That would hide the underlying
uintptr_t, which is needed anyway for XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION backward
source-level compatibility.

 -- Keir



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