On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:50 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 06/17/2004 08:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Normaly thats what your configure script is for. > > > > Or just use <stdint.h> and then int32_t, int64_t, intptr_t, .... > > Unfortunately Cernlib was largely written in the 1970's and 80's long > before configure scripts came about... It uses Imake. Also, most of it is > in Fortran, and the authors apparently never considered the possibility > that sizeof(void *) might one day be bigger than sizeof(int) on some > machines; they do all kinds of horrible conversions between C pointers, C > ints, Fortran INTEGERs, REALs, etc. > About time it was updated then -- the work to bring it up to date and make it truly portable with no stupid assumptions about type sizes would be very useful. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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