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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by Archit3ch on Monday September 23, 2024 @01:57PM (#41628742)
The fun of discovering size_t is defined differently on Apple Silicon.
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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by saagarjha on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:07PM (#41628856)
Differently from what?
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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by Archit3ch on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:59AM (#41636533)
Not sure. This was upstream code written by a person without a Mac.
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Re:Overview of cross-architecture portability problems by jrtc27 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:53AM (#41637144)
64-bit size_t is the same on Darwin as GNU/Linux (unsigned long), but uint64_t is not (Darwin defines it as unsigned long long, not unsigned long). Perhaps this is what you remember?
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