Brian Dessent wrote:
'long' is a more fundamental data type that is used by practically every w32api function signiture.
I thought the w32api (w64api?) used typedefs (e.g. 'LONG', 'DWORD', etc) almost exclusively? :-)
The C runtime is obviously an issue (except to the extent that Cygwin mostly replaces that, so it's hard to say...), but it might be possible to do some trickery under the covers so that the w32api stuff all has 'int' substituted for 'LONG', etc.
In fact, what about simply replacing 'long' with 'int' when processing "native" headers? I guess the only tricky part (other than having the ability to make such a substitution) is deciding what is a "native" header?
(Ultimately, I think this comes down to 'Microsoft decided to buck trend and do their own thing (surprise)' with the result that the rest of the world suffers either way :-(.)
-- Matthew "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" -- Monty Python
