Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : druck
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Sun Sep 01 2024 07:49:37

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:29:03 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 28/08/2024 00:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Compare the POSIX APIs, where they were careful to use generic types
>> like “size_t” and “time_t”, so that the same code could be compiled,
>> unchanged, to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Not
>> something Windows code can manage.
>
> You can do this on Windows too, but they had to bastardise their C
> compiler for people that hadn't. It's the only one that on a 64 bit
> platform that has long as 32 bits.

I know. This is why you have “LP64” (long and pointers both 64-bits)
versus “LLP64” (only long long and pointers are 64 bits, long is still 32
bits). I think LP64 is pretty much universal outside the Windows world.

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