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Re: mt_allocator.cc assumes sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(void *)
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- Cc: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, "libstdc++" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 15:00:02 +0000
- Subject: Re: mt_allocator.cc assumes sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(void *)
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On 7 November 2014 16:56, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> On 11/7/2014 9:25 AM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/07/2014 04:07 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On m32c-rtems, we have a build error in C++ because size_t
>>> is 16-bits and pointers are 24 bits. m32c-elf probably does not
>>> enable __GTHREAD support like rtems does. Since this is code
>>> shared across targets, what is the best way to fix this?
>> I don't know the exact opinion of the other library maintainers, but
>> personally I consider mt_allocator an old experiment, which, definitely,
>> to make any sense today would need profound changes. In particular, I
>> don't think we can hope to get something useful from it when size_t is
>> 16 bits and, more importantly, pointers are 24 bits. Thus, my
>> recommendation would be just arranging for its code not to break
>> bootstrap, nothing more than that.
Agreed.
> OK. I am building now with the size_t changed to uintptr_t. I tried to get
> the type definition by including <cstdint> but it didn't compile.
Did you try std::uintptr_t?