Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Can't bridge UCConvertUTCDateTimeToCFAbsoluteTime

[Ben A. <be...@ar...>]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:07 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 26 Nov, 2007, at 22:55, Ben Artin wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 26, 2007, at 3:17 PM, blake wrote:
>>
>>>> The problem appears to be that no metadata exists for <CarbonCore/
>>> UTCUtils.h>. You might try running gen_bridge_metadata(1) on
>>> CarbonCore.framework, or typecast UTCDateTime to int64_t instead.
>>
>> Also, documentation for UTCDateTime specifically says that it's wrong
>> to access it at uint64_t, so that advice is incorrect.
>
> The advice is actually a good idea: just use 'Q' as the encoding for  
> struct UTCDate and you're set as long as the definition of UTCDate  
> doesn't change, and that's not likely to happen due to binary  
> compatibility constrains.

I guess carrying it across the bridge as a uint64_t is OK as long as I  
don't try to do math with it as an integer? Thanks.

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