Re: [Opensync-devel] why long long?

[Henrik /K. <kaa...@us...>]

Daniel Gollub wrote:
> On Friday 09 October 2009 09:35:59 pm Chris Frey wrote:
>   
>> Why is the member ID so large?  Is there really a risk of
>>  9223372036854775807 different members?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that 'long long' is not as portable as just long, and
>> there is no reason for such a large number, as far as I can see.
>>     
>
> No idea, this was introduced long before i joined the OpenSync development.
> We should have a look into the subversion logs if Armin mentioned any reason 
> to use long long ...
>
> How many public member/group interfaces are using long long?
>
>   
If we really want to stick to the frozen interface, we could use gint64
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gint64

(This would be "binary compatible" with current API for most platforms I 
guess,
yet be more portable).

However, I guess that long int should be more than enough...

/Henrik