From: steveo@eircom.net   
      
   On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:43:11 +0100   
   Richard Kettlewell  wrote:   
      
   > Ahem A Rivet's Shot  writes:   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   	Very true - horse, water, drink.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   	Which is why putting assigning the value of a size_t to an unsigned   
   long or vice-versa is wrong. But hey early C programmers used to store   
   pointers in ints (there's a moan about it in first edition K&R *that*   
   early).   
      
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