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On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:22:34PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Widening the types of pointers breaks things. > > How? If we change: void foo(I32); to: void foo(Ssize_t) the compiler will widen the parameter for us. If we change: void bar(I32 *); to void bar(Ssize_t *); If we're lucky the compiler will produce an error (or it may just warn). If we happen to miss a warning we're probably going to overwite something we shouldn't. This isn't such a problem for internal functions where we can update every call, but for API functions we'll need to define a new entry point with the new types. So for example hv_iternextsv() may need an alternate entry point. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next