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Ahem A Rivet's Shot writes:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> I don’t think I’d fault either decision though the fact that we’ve
>> ended up with two conventions does make writing/maintaining portable
>> code a bit more annoying, though not really any more so than the slightly
>> different set of things compilers warn about or the lack of GCC
>> compatibility from MSVC. I think MS should bow the inevitable and
>> replace cl with Clang.
>
> Portable code should only rely on the standards not implementations,
> some very weird possibilities are legal within the standard.
>
> There are always the int_t types for when size matters.
Life is not always that simple and declaring how things ‘should’ be does
not fix a single line of code.
One of the public APIs we support largely uses ‘long’ and ‘unsigned
long’ for integral values, which causes occasional issues with our
cross-platform code. For example ‘unsigned long’ has the same size as
‘size_t’ on Linux, but not on 64-bit Windows.
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https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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