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

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Jan 13 01:28:46 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:41:30PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 
> 2010/1/12 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> >
> > That may be true but these platforms can still return 64 bit values (and
> > fail if the request is larger than 32 bit). I think Eliot's suggestion is a
> > good one: Make all file operations take 64 bit, leave it to the vm
> > implementors to deal with the consequences, and alias squeakFileOffsetType
> > to usqLong (or get rid of it).
> >
> Exactly what i want :)

Sounds right to me as well.
 


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