On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:08 PM, John Crenshaw <johncrens...@priacta.com> wrote: > >> ITYM PHP uses "long" which unfortunately isn't long on windows. >> >> -- >> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect >> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ >> (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > > This is not exactly correct. I think what you meant to say, is "long isn't > the same size as a pointer on Windows".
One should never ever use long to store an address (pointer), just like one should never use int or long to store the length of a buffer (size_t). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
