[flac-dev] question about src/test_seeking.c - seek_barrage()

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

lvqcl wrote:

> seek_barrage() has variable n of type long int (which is 32bit usually).

Thats true on Windows, but on both 32 and 64 bit linux sizeof (long int)
is 8.

> Then we see something like
> 
>     n = (long int)total_samples;
> 
> So, why n has type long int, and not FLAC__int64 or some other 64-bit type?

If I was writing FLAC from scratch now, I would not define any of these
FLAC_intXX types and just use the standard <stdint.h> types.

Since this `n` variable is not part of the public API, I would use int64_t.

Erik
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