[Gambas-user] Moving from 64bit to 32 bit and back

[Brian G]

So put every extern into two classes and then choose the one to use each time
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Brian Friday, 03 July 2020, 05:17PM -07:00 from Jussi Lahtinen  jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com :

>Then perhaps one alternative would be different classes for 32 and 64 bit systems and choose which one to use according to what System.Architecture returns at runtime.
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>Jussi
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>On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:59 AM Brian G < brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:
>>Yes that would work, but then I have to figure out the address width myself at compile time.
>>   I would need to compile for each architecture . 
>>  I was trying to find a way to make the code portable that requires no recompile for SAME OS 32 AND 64 BIT VERSION. The same package can be installed on both versions and call c functions and pass structures without any issues....... So far lol  ... with such in-depth testing I have done... Three or four times ... 
>>Pointers are basically unsigned values which match size_t's nominal type and length.
>>The cint and clong function are signed so it does take a little bit if fiddling to work properly.
>>More testing needed of course.
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>>Brian Friday, 03 July 2020, 01:40PM -07:00 from Jussi Lahtinen  jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com :
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>>>I would rather use preprocessors to define the variables, but it depends... your way should work.
>>>http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/.if
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>>>Jussi
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>>>On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:51 AM Brian G < brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:
>>>>I replaced all c calls from Gambas3 that required Size_t data type with a pointer type in Gambas and cast the type using cint() or clong() when the value must be used.
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>>>>I did this because in most cases size_t follows the width of the address bus by convention.
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>>>>This seems to work so far. 
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>>>>Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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>>>>I would like to get some input about this if anyone have a better idea
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>>>>I can't see any where even in the structures I have used that this does not translate well.
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>>>>Was playing with the new raspi OS which defaults to 32 bit.
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>>>>Thank You
>>>>Brian G
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