help: is there any way to use integer 64 type in protocol?

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:

> Em dom 20 abr 2014, às 17:31:48, Jason Ekstrand escreveu:
> > Adding 64-bit types wouldn't be too hard.  It would involve adding a
> > int64_t an uint64_t types to wl_argument (I'd call them U and I
> personally)
> > and adding code throughout libwayland to parse them.  In terms of
> backwards
> > compatibility, it should be fine as long as you make it 100% clear that
> > your new protocol extension uses the new 64bit types and therefore
> requires
> > the newer libwayland version.
>
> That changes the size and alignment of wl_argument on 32-bit platforms. No
> can
> do until libwayland 2.0, with a binary compatibility break.
>

Yeah, you're right.  Thanks for catching that.  In retrospect, I should
have put a 64 bit place-holder in the union when it was first added to
ensure that it was 64 bits on both platforms.  But, like you said, can't
change it now.
--Jason


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