On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:50:53 -0400, Andrew Schultz
<ajs### [at] eosncsuedu> wrote:
>that would be easy.
>sed scripts for "long"=>"int32", "unsigned long" => "u_int32".
>
>the problem is that there are going to be places where a true long is needed.
>Also, after the switch, someone that knows what they're doing would need to test 
>everything to make sure it still works.  It could introduce subtle (perhaps 
>platform-specific) problems.

And thus a quick search & replace won't work. It'll require fairly
extensive knowledge of the POV-Ray internals, an area where I'm
definitely not up-to-date (haven't delved deeply into the source since
1.0 and much has changed since).

/Erkki

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