[Expat-discuss] 64 bit integers in Expat 2.0?

[Karl Waclawek]

Graham Bennett wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:00:46AM -0500, Karl Waclawek wrote:
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>>We are trying to decide whether we should change some API return values
>>to 64 bit integers to support file sizes > 2GB. Affected would be these 
>>API members:
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>When you say change to 64-bit, do you mean explicitly 64-bit on all
>platforms?  
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Yes.

>I would have thought it better to use something like size_t, which would
>be of the appropriate size on each platform.
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The point is that even on 32bit platforms, file sizes > 2GB are 
supported  nowadays.
size_t would therefore not be appropriate, as it would be 32bit on such 
a platform.

Karl