• Benjamin Herr (12/12) Feb 02 2005 Hello, D.
• Unknown W. Brackets (7/12) Feb 02 2005 I may be wrong, but I remember the spec being fairly clear that a uint
• Thomas Kuehne (18/18) Feb 02 2005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
• Unknown W. Brackets (2/6) Feb 02 2005

Benjamin Herr <ben 0x539.de> writes:

Hello, D.

I am rather certain that Walter is aware that phobos is not currently 
portable to 64bit architectures. (For example, internal/gc/gc.d does 
often assume that uint.sizeof == void*.sizeof == ulong.sizeof/2 == 32 
bit, which is not true on some architectures that I would like to see D 
be usable on.)

I assume this issue is not a priority and likely will not receive any 
attention before the 1.0 release is out, but I would like to ask how 
deeply such assumptions are embedded in dmd and the low-level parts of 
phobos, and perhaps to get an estimate when they will be adressed.


Thanks,
   -ben

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

I may be wrong, but I remember the spec being fairly clear that a uint 
is a uint is a uint - on 64 bit architectures... it's the same size as 
on 32 bit ones.

Please see:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/type.html

Forgive me if I'm mistaken.

-[Unknown]

 I am rather certain that Walter is aware that phobos is not currently 
 portable to 64bit architectures. (For example, internal/gc/gc.d does 
 often assume that uint.sizeof == void*.sizeof == ulong.sizeof/2 == 32 
 bit, which is not true on some architectures that I would like to see D 
 be usable on.)

Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.THISISSPAM.cn> writes:

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|> I am rather certain that Walter is aware that phobos is not currently
|> portable to 64bit architectures. (For example, internal/gc/gc.d does
|> often assume that uint.sizeof == void*.sizeof == ulong.sizeof/2 == 32
|> bit, which is not true on some architectures that I would like to see
|> D be usable on.)

| I may be wrong, but I remember the spec being fairly clear that a uint
| is a uint is a uint - on 64 bit architectures... it's the same size as
| on 32 bit ones.

The trouble is: void*.sizeof == uint.sizeof
And I am sure that uint is quite often used instead of the correct size_t.

Thomas
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"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

My mistake.  I saw uint and ulong but I fear I read it a bit too quickly.

-[Unknown]


 The trouble is: void*.sizeof == uint.sizeof
 And I am sure that uint is quite often used instead of the correct size_t.
 
 Thomas