On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Ken Treis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Douglas Brebner wrote: > > > One minor point is that whether integers and longs are different > > depends > > on the platforms data model. Under MS Win64, integers and long > > integers > > are both 32bit, while on most unixes integers are 32bit while long > > ints > > are 64bit. (LLP64 and LP64 models respectively) > > > > I don't know if this is important though. > > Good point. All of my platforms are LP64 (Mac OS X and Linux x86-64), > and my main objective at present is to get this working for an > application I'm committed to build, so I was ignoring those sorts of > cross-platform details. > +1. Please take into consideration to make Alien cross platform!!! Just as FFI is. > > Perhaps there would need to be new primitives for the basic size of > each relevant C type? I'm anxious to hear what Eliot might have to say > about this since he's got about 2000x more experience with this than I > do. > > -- > Ken Treis > Miriam Technologies, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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