Guenter <[email protected]> writes:

>> Can we do other cleanups at the same time?  I'm not sure if it is a good
>> idea to break ABI compatibility just because of the change above.  On
> yes, I think we should then crawl though all public APIs and see where
> else these size_t adjustments are needed ...

I think that would be good, but it will be a lot of grunt work and will
create some problems.  You have my general support on this but I won't
spend cycles on it. :-)

>> the other hand, if we want to do it, now is a better time than later
>> because libssh2 is still a relatively young project.
> thought so too; currently we get a bunch of warnings with libcurl builds
> on 64-bit, f.e.:
> http://curl.haxx.se/auto/log.cgi?id=20091007113936-13693#prob1

Yup.  I guess it could be solved by casting, right?

> OT: are you subscribed to the libcurl list too?
> If so we might continue discussion there ...
> I have another prob with gnutls which seems a known issue:
> http://curl.haxx.se/auto/log.cgi?id=20091007093910-16730#prob1
> found this related thread:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01046.html
> and wonder if we still have no solution to this issue?

The solution is to use macros such as the ones defined by glib:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Type-Conversion-Macros.html#desc

GnuTLS even define such a macro internally, see lib/m4/hooks.m4:

  # For storing integers in pointers without warnings
  # 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Type-Conversion-Macros.html#desc
  AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *)
  AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long)
  AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int)
  case $ac_cv_sizeof_void_p in
    $ac_cv_sizeof_long)
      AC_DEFINE([GNUTLS_POINTER_TO_INT_CAST], [(long)],
                [Additional cast to bring void* to a type castable to int.])
      ;;
    *)
      AC_DEFINE([GNUTLS_POINTER_TO_INT_CAST], [])
      ;;
  esac

Possibly GnuTLS could provide a macro in gnutls.h to do this, to avoid
every project having to import this.  It is a pain to get right...

/Simon
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