[Bug 678181] Compilation error when using GST_TIME_TO_TIMEVAL()...

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678181
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--- Comment #6 from Wim Taymans <wim.taymans at gmail.com> 2012-06-18 14:32:00 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> -> Wim: No, I believe that G_MAXUINT32 is the correct value. The reason being
> that if the assert would fail on a 32-bit machine you want it to fail on a
> 64-bit machine too so that bugs on 32-bit machines will not go unnoticed for
> people only compiling for 64-bit machines. G_MAXLONG would have different
> values depending on if it is compiled for 32- or 64-bit machines in case I'm
> haven't misunderstood things.

Except that things work correctly on 64 bits when using G_MAXLONG. Artificially
restricting a feature on 64bits would be like saying that you can't allocate
more than 4GB of memory on 64bits because it would fail on 32 bits...

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