Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/15/2024 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2024-08-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 8/14/2024 2:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

And it has different size of long and pointers. Causing problems
for two cases:
* code that make implicit assumptions that those are 32 bit
* mixing C and C++

>
I am getting more and more convinced that C and C++
code should completely switch to the explicit length
model.

That works great until you need to interface to the OS unfortunately.

Encapsulate and handle the conversion between stdint API and
various CRTL/OS API's.
Do test builds on all sorts of platforms with high warning level to
see if someone went unnoticed.
Arne