[Openal-devel] Making portable module portable again...

[Prakash Punnoor]

Am Sonntag Februar 26 2006 16:41 schrieb Sven Panne:
> Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 16:15 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:
> > Am Sonntag Februar 26 2006 15:32 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:
> > > But looking at the code I don't really understand what we need ssize_t
> > > here? google tells me ptr_diff can be used instead. But on the other
> > > hand the variables we are assigning are simple ints. SO why can't we
> > > use ints here, as well?
> >
> > It should be "ptrdiff_t".. but, I'll set it to long (I guess int should
> > also suffice), as we only pass into, unsigned int or longs to above two
> > variables, so why make life complicated?
>
> Well, IIRC the two occurences of ssize_t are probably related to buffer
> handling/queueing, which I didn't have a look at yet, so I can't really
> comment on this. But in any case this smells like "primitive obsession"
> again, so some typedefs are probably appropriate, anyway.
>
> Furthermore, I've been planning to introduce ssize_t into the backend API,
> anyway to make this more POSIX-like, but I'll keep Windows in mind then.

Not that I understand too much of this, but
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/25489.html

seems also to suggest to use ptrdiff_t instead of ssize_t, as the first one is 
portable.

So, I will now reboot to windows (yuck ;-) again to see how far I am...
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