size_t usage in wine

[Marko Nikolic]

Hi,

I have found in wine documentation that it is recommended to avoid long data 
type, since it is different in Win64 and Unix64. This is reasonable, 
however, is there some similar policy regarding size_t/ssize_t usage?

Those types are often defined as long type, so they could produce the same 
problem with 64 bit. On the other hand, many standard functions expect or 
return size_t values, so I guess it could be ok to use it in such cases. Is 
there any advice/position on this?

Thanks,

Marko

[James McKenzie]

Marko Nikolic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found in wine documentation that it is recommended to avoid long data 
> type, since it is different in Win64 and Unix64. This is reasonable, 
> however, is there some similar policy regarding size_t/ssize_t usage?

Actually, size_t should be avoided if at all possible, because different 
platforms implement different values for this variable type, if they do 
at all.

James McKenzie