GNU bug report logs - #9960
Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 11:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com, fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 9960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9960: Compiling Emacs trunk with MSVC
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:33 +0100

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:51, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> The hidden assumption is that a long and a pointer are of the same
> width.  This is true on 32-bit hosts and on 64-bit Posix hosts (which
> have the LP64 architecture), but not on 64-bit Windows, where long is
> a 32-bit data type, but a pointer is 64-bit wide.

Aha, I see. So Fabrice is right: the code should not assume that, and
mixed uses of long/pointer will have to be "fixed".

    Juanma
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