POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 64-bit compile bug : Re: 64-bit compile bug Server Time
5 Aug 2024 18:21:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 64-bit compile bug  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 15 Aug 2002 16:16:10
Message: <3d5c0c0a@news.povray.org>
In article <web.3d5bf4e2b1abd86b9ecef47b0@news.povray.org> , "Andrew 
Schultz" <ajs### [at] eosncsuedu> wrote:

> That is a hack has the potential to busticate external include files that
> use "long" properly.

But there are no such files if you use a compiler switch!

> The real solution is to not assume to know what the compiler thinks a long
> is.  The framework to do so is there, it's just not always used.

Oh really? ;-)  I never said there is no "real" solution.  But who is going
to implement the "real" solution considering the size of the POV-Ray source
code...? :-(

    Thorsten

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