[vorbis-dev] longs

[Taral]

On 11 Sep, Monty wrote:

>> Personally, I think it's better to never use native C data types directly 
>> as their size is not constant. The problem you ran into is a good example 
>> of why typedefs should be used instead.
> 
> C is the way it is for a reason, even if the decided upon spec turned out to be
> 'not entirely sufficient'.  Forcing an Alpha to use 32 bit ints, for example,
> is a good way to kill integer performace (as Windows NT for Alpha partially
> demostrates).

How about using int_min32 or something that guarantees a type which has
32 bits or more and is efficient on the platform?


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