Is ptrdiff_t not portable? As far as I know it's part of the standard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Makoto Kato" <m_k...@ga2.so-net.ne.jp> To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:30:39 AM Subject: Re: Gecko switched to use standard integer types
How about PRUptrdiff? Most cases can changes to uintptr_t. On 2012/08/23 1:35, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > I just landed the patches in bug 579517 which switch all of the code in > mozilla-central and comm-central [1] to use the standard integer types > as opposed to NSPR integer types. Here's what this means to you: > > * If you're a developer, this will most likely bitrot your patches. You > can use this script [2] in order to unbitrot your patches if you use > mercurial queues. Also, please get into the habit of using stdint types > (such as int16_t and uint32_t) as opposed to NSPR numeric types (such as > PRInt16 and PRUint32). > > * If you maintain a branch which merges against mozilla-central, you > probably want to merge mozilla-central into it as soon as possible. > There will probably be merge conflicts. The easiest way to resolve them > is to take your branch's version in the conflicts and then run the > script that I used for the conversion again so that you make sure you're > not adding more NSPR numeric type usages in your branch. > > * If you want to back out a patch which landed before this, there's > probably a bunch of manual conflict resolution that you need to do. > > * If you talk to new Mozilla contributors regularly, you probably won't > need to explain to them what these NSPR types are any more. :-) > > * If you're not in any of the above categories, this work will probably > not affect you. > > > Cheers, > Ehsan > > [1] (except for NSPR and NSS) > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=650572 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=653946 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
