From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: size_t vs "unsigned long" Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:36:03 +0200 Message-ID: <877im3khj0.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <7vabr0djqr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071003204801.GC28188@artemis.corp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Pierre Habouzit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 23:36:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdBtK-0003rz-W3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:36:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754281AbXJCVgO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754434AbXJCVgO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:36:14 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:3811 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752927AbXJCVgN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:36:13 -0400 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1IdBt0-0001q4-QI; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:36:06 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IdBsx-0007Ns-Pu; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:36:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20071003204801.GC28188@artemis.corp> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:48:01 +0200") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Pierre Habouzit: > Well, afaict, on every linux archs I know of, unsigned longs and > size_t are the same. IIRC, 64-bit Windows uses 64-bit points (duh) and hence a 64-bit size_t, but still has got 32-bit longs. Documentation is a bit sparse on this matter (because you are supposed to use LONG, DWORD and friends anyway).