On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Peter Vreman wrote: > > >>>That said, the RTL should also avoid confusion with the Windows/Delphi > >>>THandle type, and introduce a cross-platform and opaque TFileHandle > >>>type. > >> > >>It's text/file/file of in pascal ;) > >> > >> > >>>Which will happen to be equal to THandle on 32-bit windows. > >>>On 32-bit Linux, the definition of THandle will then also equal > >>>TFileHandle. > >>> > >>>This will also take some work :-) > >> > >>I guess this is no solution. It makes porting delphi apps very hard. > >>What's the problem if thandle is 64 bit on 64 bit systems? You can still > >>store a 32 bit file handle in it. > > > > > > It'll give a lot of Warnings when compiling the sources. And there is a > > risk for rangecheck errors. > > > > I checked Kylix, there THandle=longword which is also incompatible with > > our THandle=longint under Linux. > > > > My proposal is to rename the current THandle to TFileHandle. And add an > > platform independent type "THandle=PtrUInt". > > Note that this can still cause range check errors under Unix, because > > invalid filedescriptors have (normally) value -1. > > Sounds good to me. If we rename THandle to TFileHandle then we should use it where needed, so we don't get any range check errors. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
