Can't you just define f5f_VARIABLE as uint64? The only place it's used it's being converted to uint anyway (which seems slightly dubious in itself).
On 10 August 2017 at 09:03, Dan Kortschak <dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > I'm pretty sure this should never have worked, but it seemed to > previously and now it doesn't. > > In the gonum/hdf5 package there is a var declared against an HDF5 > define like so, `var h5t_VARIABLE int64 = C.H5T_VARIABLE`[1]. > > `H5T_VARIABLE` is defined in H5Tpublic.h as `#define > H5T_VARIABLE ((size_t)(-1))`[2]. Until this change[3], the code > built, but now fails with > > ``` > # gonum.org/v1/hdf5 > ./h5t_shim.go:263: constant 18446744073709551615 overflows int64 > ``` > > Is the appropriate way to deal with this to write a C function to > return the value of the C H5T_VARIABLE define and assign that to > h5t_VARIABLE? > > thanks > Dan > > [1]https://github.com/gonum/hdf5/blob/9ceb57b6befdd95ba662efe6c898dde02 > 588b052/h5t_shim.go#L263 > [2]https://github.com/rwinlib/hdf5/blob/3b4be81d5445c02032174b3cc99ddee > ac5ada816/include/H5Tpublic.h#L198 > [3]https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/44290 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
