[vorbis-dev] longs

[lars brinkhoff]

Taral <taral at taral.net> writes:
> 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?

In C99 <stdint.h>, there's a data type called int_fast32_t.  It's
defined as the fastest integer data type with at least 32 bits of
precision.

(No, <stdint.h> isn't available on all platforms, but maybe new
 typedefs could be modelled after it.)

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