Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: malc <malc@pulsesoft.com>
> 
>>>>I assume the other choices include int64, nativeint, or even int.
>>>
>>>If you look at mlvalues.h you will see that nativeint is define as
>>>long int. So this should be the natural format for a pointer.
>>
>>I don't think so, Win64 ABI has sizeof(long) == 4 and sizeof(void *) == 8.
> 
> 
> Aargh, they seem to like to break everything!
> Anyway, I suppose it just means that ocaml would have to define value
> as a long long int on Win64, to make it behave like other
> architectures. 
> The sources are full of casts from value to (value *) and back.
> Rather, this is going to be a pain to port many C libraries, that
> assume that you can convert between a long and a pointer and back.

I was worried about something like the Win64 silliness... ;)

Said silliness aside, I will go ahead and switch to nativeint - thanks.

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