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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:59:41 -0400
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On 8/15/2024 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-08-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 8/14/2024 2:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> And it has different size of long and pointers. Causing problems
>>> for two cases:
>>> * code that make implicit assumptions that those are 32 bit
>>> * mixing C and C++
>>
>> I am getting more and more convinced that C and C++
>> code should completely switch to the explicit length
>> model.

> That works great until you need to interface to the OS unfortunately.

Encapsulate and handle the conversion between stdint API and
various CRTL/OS API's.

Do test builds on all sorts of platforms with high warning level to
see if someone went unnoticed.

Arne