Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] resubmission of win64 patch

[John Cowan]

Felix scripsit:

> Note that the foreign types "integer" and "unsigned-integer" map to
> "long long" and "unsigned long long" (available as "C_long" and
> "C_ulong" in C code that uses "chicken.h") on this platform.

That doesn't make sense to me.  The Win64 memory model is LLP64: that is,
ints and longs are still 32 bits, and only pointers are 64 bits, unlike
the LP64 memory model of all other systems where ints are 32 bits and
longs and pointers are 64 bits.  So "integer" and "unsigned-integer"
should be the C types "long" and "unsigned long" in order to DTRT when
invoking Win64 C functions.

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