On Friday 22 July 2005 07:26, Robert Roessler wrote:
> 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.

According to 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win64/win64/abstract_data_models.asp
they have chosen LLP64 model, while almost everybody else are using LP64. 
Quite funny choice I  should say.

But from the other point of view -- isn't it possible to make the compiler to 
complain hard when you are trying to convert int/long to pointer?



-- 
Best regards,
  Alexander.