Thanks for reporting this. You are right, it works surprisingly well if it is wrong.
We'll try to merge a fix in the release, at least once Brian has confirmed that everything continues to work well on Windows after changing it. :-) Bill. On 11 October 2014 12:11, gha.st <a...@gha.st> wrote: > In mpir.h (and gmp-h.in from which it is generated unless I miss my > guess), starting at line 66, the following code can be found: > > /* #if defined(__GMP_WITHIN_CONFIGURE) && defined(_WIN64) */ > #ifdef __WIN64 > #define _LONG_LONG_LIMB 1 > #endif > > In my humble opinion its intent is to deal with the fact that long is a 32 > bit value when using MSVC to compile for AMD64 targets by defining > _LONG_LONG_LIMB, which in turn will cause long long to be used instead. > > However, at least when using MingW64 to compile to a Windows DLL, the > output header mpir.h contains the same lines. MSVC does not define __WIN64 > (it does define _WIN64 instead -- note the number of underbars) and > therefore will assume that _LONG_LONG_LIMB is *not* defined. > > As a result, when using the DLL from MSVC, it will assume that e.g. > mpir_ui is unsigned long - which works surprisingly well for being > completely wrong. > > As a simple fix, the following works for me: > #if defined(__WIN64) || defined(_WIN64) > #define _LONG_LONG_LIMB 1 > #endif > > Hopefully this suggestion is somewhat helpful and not just wasting your > time ;) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
