[CMake] 64bit programming

[Matthew Woehlke]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. August 2008 18:09:37 schrieb Matthew Woehlke:
>> Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>>> Am Samstag, 23. August 2008 02:34:35 schrieb Matthew Woehlke:
>>>> Don't make assumptions about sizeof(long) or sizeof(void*)... not even
>>>> that they are the same (Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided -
>>>> as usual - to be different from everyone else and adopt a P64 model,
>>>> rather than LP64 used by *everyone* else). That's the big thing. I don't
>>>> know about kitware libraries, but I wouldn't expect much in the way of
>>>> "gotchas" regarding 64-bit builds and cmake... at least, not on
>>>> non-Windows platforms :-).
>>> Usually, that should never be a problem as casting from long to a pointer
>>> and back is really good coding style in modern C (about the same as not
>>> differing between function/code pointer and data pointers).
>> Unless I misunderstood the above, you're missing "really good coding
>> style in modern C **unless you ever want to support Windows**"...
> 
> Ups. -> s/is/isn't/

Eep! Yeah, that pretty thoroughly changes the meaning, indeed :-). 
Thanks for the correction!

-- 
Matthew
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