From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42093 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OlRn5-0006uy-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:25:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlRmi-0001Kx-Qp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:25:22 -0400 Received: from fe01x03-cgp.akado.ru ([77.232.31.164]:52701 helo=akado.ru) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlRmi-0001KQ-GN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:25:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:24:58 +0400 (MSD) From: malc Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] CODING_STYLE: add C type rules In-Reply-To: <4C6AE1AA.7000200@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <4C6A43B5.40809@redhat.com> <4C6AE1AA.7000200@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 08/17/10 20:55, malc wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote: > >>> The other thing that might be worth mentioning in the int/long section > >>> is that long is complicated in broken development environments such as > >>> Windows where it is only 32 bit :( > > > > There's absolutely nothing broken about LLP64 it's as valid as any other > > ABI. (That's to Jes) > > Well it works if you program for it, but it still doesn't make it any > good when you can't keep a pointer in a long to apply arithmetic to it. > Anyway point with the documentation is to make it clear that we rely on > being able to do long foo = (long)ptr; Which isn't (and never was) sanctioned by any standard, IOW not good. -- mailto:av1474@comtv.ru