On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Frederic Koehler wrote:
> As far as I can tell, tooltalk makes no effort to be binary compatible
> between different platforms already; e.g. in the patch I recently
> submitted,
> that code sends part of a message of size uid_t which is not the same
> between different platforms. (although rpc itself should be platform
> independent) I'm not sure if there is a reason to talk to a nonlocal
> tooltalk daemon an7wa7.
>
Actually, TT does need to be network-safe for talking with remote TT's
(either a ttsession or rpc.ttdbserver). So we can't just go around
globaly changing ints to longs.
> size_t (large enough for any array indexing) is not _clearly
> guaranteed_ by the standard to be the same size as a pointer, but in
> reality
> I believe it is the same size pretty much everywhere, since array
> indexing is addition + dereferencing.
>
> For whatever reason, C does not allow you to perform bitwise
> operations on pointers; that's probably
> why they're being converted to int/longs.
>
Possibly.
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