My bad. Of course, we write 'longlong' and not 'long long' in the definition of external structures.

Still, that question of constency is still valid. 

(Even though ExternalType has not yet support for generating the C type cast yet.)

Best,
Marcel
Am 29.05.2020 13:06:24 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
Hi, there!

Here is a question of consistency. :-)

In the definition of external structures, we write 'long' or 'long long'.
In the definition of external pools, we write #Integer.

The latter is automatically converted into a "(long long)" cast for printf.

What is the better approach? I think it would be better to also write 'long' or 'long long' when defining external pools:

<ffiVariable: MY_CONSTANT type: 'long long'>
instead of
<ffiVariable: MY_CONSTANT type: #LargePositiveInteger>


Would make it easier to define platform-specific differences.

Best,
Marcel
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