Re: [Plib-devel] Saitek X52 joystick with 34 buttons

[Trammell H. <hud...@sw...>]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:24:50PM +0200, Bram Stolk wrote:
> Trammell Hudson wrote:
> >I've recently started using a Saitek X52 joystick with my Linux box and
> >have run into problems with plib's JS module limitation in the number
> >of supported buttons. [...]
> 
> Hi Trammell!

Don't we know each other from somewhere else?

> I'll be happy to commit your changes to CVS.
> However, before I do that, I need to check for portability.
> 
> jsLinux.cxx is pretty safe to adapt.
> However, js.h is cross-platform, and I wonder about the
> portability of uint64_t. Do all plib platforms know uint64_t ?

It is defined in C99 and many platforms have supported it as part of
the C9X preliminary standard for the past five years.  I can't speak to
anything other than Unix like platforms, all of which support it (Linux,
BSD, Cygwin and OS X).  I only ever use gcc compilers, so this answered
the question for me:

	http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html

> It seems to be defined by stdint.h, which is included in inttypes.h

I don't believe plib is targetting any non-hosted, free standing
environments, so you should be safe to include the larger <inttypes.h>
header, which also provides formatting macros, etc.


Trammell