Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeroen> My VM (http://ikvm.net) is built on top of .NET, so I > Jeroen> want to use the .NET class libraries for I/O, but the current > Jeroen> java.io.FileDescriptor uses an int as the native handle, while I want > Jeroen> the use a reference to a .NET stream object. > > Brian> This is an assumption that isn't even valid under all flavors > Brian> of UNIX; think 64 bit file systems for example. > > In libgcj we're using `int' in FileDescriptor. I don't think we have > cross-platform problems. However, it wouldn't hurt to change this to > `long'. I know this has come up before with libgcj, but I don't > remember why we never made a change -- probably because on Windows, > sizeof(int)==sizeof(void*).
Windows POSIX API has both 'int' and 'long' versions of the file I/O functions or I should say 32bit vs 64bit. Brian -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
