Re: ssize_t vs win64

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 16:59, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> I'm not entirely sure what the type is for, though,
>
> It's supposed to be the same width as size_t but signed.  I would assume
> that it should be 64 bits on Win64.

Yeah, seems reasonable. I'll put in that #ifdef in win32.h then.

> According to SUS this type should be provided by sys/types.h:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/systypes.h.html
> so I'm not clear why we have to provide it ourselves at all.

Should, but it's not included in types.h in the Microsoft SDK:s. It
seems to have time_t and off_t, but that's about it.

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