[vorbis-dev] longs

[Thomas Marshall Eubanks]

Monty wrote:

> > Please change all longs to int, and never use them in the future :)
>
> Pardon me for being blunt, but 'no'.  That breaks far more than it fixes.
>
> > They arent needed as on most platforms they are the same size. (which is the assumption made in the ogg code anyway)
>
> Not true.
>
> > The reason for this is i will have vorbis support on playstation 2, but long is 64 bits, and they are excruciatingly slow.
>
> On some platforms, int is 16 bits, and this would break the code badly.  It's
> true that my usage of long/int is slightly sloppy (I do use longs in many
> unneccessary places) but there are just as many places where using int will
> break things.  We'll need to work a bit harder on a solution; the only
> reliable solution may well be to hardwire more Ogg types in autoconf...
>
> Monty
>
>

Well, you could just rewrite it all in Fortran, which is faster than
C and offers much more cross-platform numerical stability :)

                                 Regards
                                 Marshall Eubanks

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