[Ecls-list] long-long

[Matthew Mondor]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 15:30:35 +0200
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> ECL supports "long long" whenever the compiler allows it.

That's nice.

> Regarding the other question, ECL just follows the C naming convention.
> Expecting long, int, long long or any other integer type to have a certain
> size is simply not right. If you want portable code for that, use uint*_t,
> int*_t, the C99 integer types. In any other case, just use the types which
> are specified by the C header -- autoconf might help for that.

I agree and think that it was an odd choice to chose long long in the
case of those syscalls...

Thanks,
-- 
Matt