Re: [Opensync-devel] why long long?

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:40:08PM +0200, 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?

Sorry for the delay on this.

This command shows about 22 functions:

	find . -type f -name "*.h" -print0 | \
		xargs -0 grep "long *long" | \
		grep EXPORT | \
		wc -l

There are also things like misc/schemas/capabilities.xsd that have
longlong and ulonglong for things such as AdvancedType.

- Chris