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Subject:	Re: htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs types
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On Apr 21 16:58, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Lars Munch, le Fri 21 Apr 2006 16:48:31 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:32:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > That's a problem with the code you're working on.  If it relies on the
> > > fact that int32_t resp. uint32_t are typedef'ed as "int", then it
> > > contradicts the purpose of stdint.h, which is, not relying on the
> > > definition of underlying datatypes.
> > 
> > Thanks for the explanation and you are absolutely right, but isn't using
> > long instead of int a potential problem, since long is usually 64bit on
> > a 64bit system whereas int is usually 32 bit and both 32bit and 64bit
> > systems? 
> 
> When 64bits will be supported, there will be an ifdef here.

It's that simple :-)


Corinna

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