[En-Nut-Discussion] The biggest problem when portting

[Ralph Mason]

> >The biggest problem is the type "int" when portting.
> >The type int has different size in different platforms.
> >On H8, the int is two bytes long so that it can not
> >be used as pointer since pointer is 32bits on H8.
> >I hate it !!!!

Pointers are pointers, not int's or shorts or any other type.  If you use a
pointer type then you have no problems.


> Oh...is that so? Well, I intended to replace all u_shorts
> by u_ints. But that would not make much sense then.

I run them all on a 32 bit pc with no trouble.  I modified the heap routines
to use a u_int for the size so that on bigger architectures it can use more
than 65kb and changed offending u_short casts for pointers to u_char* casts.

>
> >Too much work is needed to modify the crt routines.
> >So......? What I should do next?
> >To use system crt functions?

Not neccessary.

>
> No, because it is very convenient to use fprintf() on
> a socket and most apps would use it, making them non
> portable.

Ralph
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