On Wed, 24 May 2023 13:56:05 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> On Windows, the basic Java Integer types are defined as long and __int64 > respectively. In particular, the former is rather problematic since it breaks > compilation as the Visual C++ becomes stricter and more compliant with every > release, which means the way Windows code treats long as a typedef for int is > no longer correct, especially with -permissive- enabled. Instead of changing > every piece of broken code to match the jint = long typedef, which is far too > time consuming, we can instead change jint to an int (which is still the same > 32 bit number type as long), as there are far fewer problems caused by this > definition. It's better to get this over and done with sooner than later when > a future version of Visual C++ finally starts to break on existing code I'll see what I can do, I'll check the parameter type for the methods that are called in relevant code, though if they take an int as an argument I'm not really sure what to change ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14125#issuecomment-1562526271
