[Vm-dev] other 64bit changes, header files, and smalltalk

[Eliot Miranda]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> Btw,  about that function. Its using a squeakFileOffsetType, which is
>> platform specific, and i had hard times
>> trying to deal with right header inclusion order imposing dependency
>> of interpreter from platform code, which, IMO should be avoided.
>> I propose to change it to
>> typedef  unsigned long long vmFileOffsetType;
>> and use this type instead.
>>
>
> I'm not sure if MSVC supports long long nowadays. It didn't used to - it
> used to require __int64 which is why the definition of squeakFileOffsetType
> is external.
>

We should just use usqLong.  The platform-specific definition in
platforms/Cross/vm/sqVirtualMachine.h can be moved to sqMemoryAccess.h so
that usqLong & sqLong are also available once sqInt & usqInt are.



>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
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