On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, [email protected] wrote:
I have written a Wikipedia bot that is highly portable. It relies on libcurl, so I suppose it's only as portable as libcurl is. Yet, I have had the idea of porting it to an embedded architecture. It's not inconceivable that it could run on a 16-bit size_t machine.
Ok, then please name a 16-bit size_t machine/OS that features a socket API and enough functionality to run libcurl.
If you find one, and you build libcurl for it, I would expect you to have quite a few other more significant problems than the size_t in the write callback (which after all _isn't_ a problem even for 16 bits). It's actually really hard to write decent modern software to build and run fine on 16bit architectures while working fine on 32 and 64 bit as well, and libcurl is no exception.
To my knowledge, nobody ever made libcurl run on a 16bit architecture. -- / daniel.haxx.se ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
