Re: non-64bit platforms? (Re: g[u]int64 GValues (was GValue questions))

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > > Is this an oversight or was it deliberate? GValue does store 
> > > a gdouble so
> > > there is already space for a 64 bit type.
> 
> right, but afaik, 64bit ints are not supported on all system/compiler versions
> that glob runs on. at least historically this has been an issue, which is why
> we special-case guint64 definitions in glib based on a configure.in check.
> i'm not quite sure where 64bit ints fail nowadays though, irrc, orbit
> has a hard dependancy on 64bit ints for quite some time now and runs on a 
> bunch of systems.

Midnight commander (even text edition) depends on glib, and it really 
wants to be portable to obscure systems... Try to ask on mc-devel if
all platforms do have 64-bit integers...
								Pavel
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