Paul Smith wrote: > > Gnulib code can assume that standard internal types like size_t are no > > wider than long. > > Is that right? On a 64bit system compiling with Microsoft Visual C, > long is only a 32bit integer. Is it saying that gnulib is specifically > not intended to work with MS Visual C?
You are right, on 64-bit native Windows (both mingw and MSVC), 'long' is only 32-bit and thus smaller than 'intptr_t'. Parts of gnulib do work on MSVC and mingw; for full coverage, there's still a lot of work to be done [1]. I would vote for removing this sentence "Gnulib code can assume that standard internal types like size_t are no wider than long." The fix is easy nowadays (since MSVC now has <stdint.h>): Use intptr_t or ptrdiff_t or size_t as appropriate. Bruno [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-12/msg00112.html
