Re: [PATCH] DO_GLOBAL_CTORS_BODY needs uintptr_t

[Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz at gmail dot com>]

On 3/18/09, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  >> Since this code is only compiled with the newly built gcc, other options
>  >> would be to use __PTRDIFF_TYPE__ or __UINTMAX_TYPE__.
>  >
>
> > AFAIK, __PTRDIFF_TYPE__ is defined (and not typedef'ed) as signed,
>  > not unsigned. If it won't be a problem, __PTRDIFF_TYPE__ seems as
>  > a better candidate to me, and can even be used in combination with
>  > 'unsigned' (although that might be ugly..)
>
>
> Using a signed type should be fine.  Each constructor uses some number
>  of bytes, however small, so it's impossible to imagine having more
>  constructors than half the address space.
>
>  Or for that matter __SIZE_TYPE__ should be the unsigned type
>  corresponding to __PTRDIFF_TYPE__.
>
>
>  Ian
>

Here it is, then, using __SIZE_TYPE__.

Ozkan

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