Am 28.09.2015 um 17:50 schrieb Eric Blake: > On 09/28/2015 09:19 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 28.09.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Eric Blake: >>> On 09/28/2015 02:26 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: >>> >>>>> Can you explain why osdep.h's >>>>> >>>>> #define FMT_pid "%" PRId64 >>>>> >>>>> is appropriate for Windows? >>>> Don't blame me for any strangeness which you might find in Windows. :-) >>>> >>>> Mingw-w64 sys/types.h defines pid_t to be either an int or an __int64. >>>> FMT_pid must match these definitions. >>>> >>>> But getpid returns an int, not a pid_t... >>> Can we 1) file a bug against mingw for their buggy getpid(), and 2) >>> write a wrapper that makes getpid() always return pid_t in the meantime? >> >> 1) No, because MinGW and Mingw-w64 use the same declaration as MS. >> They cannot change that, of course. Nor will MS correct this after many >> years, for obvious reasons. > > If getpid() always returns int, then defining pid_t to __int64 feels > wrong. I still claim its a mingw bug to have a mismatch in types. >
I have sent this question to mingw-w64-pub...@lists.sourceforge.net. Stefan
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