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3087 :: Why cint 32 bits?

• firosiro (orginal) [2017-08-02T10:35:28+02:00] view original

  Just a quick question that I couldn't find the answer to anywhere. According to the system module description, cint is supposed to be equivalent to using "int" in C. However, cint is explicitly defined as int32, whereas C does not require "int" to be 32 bits. Of course most C implementations do use 32 bit integers, but for correctness, wouldn't it make more sense to either let cint be compiler-dependent, or at least change its description to point out this minor issue?

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• Araq (orginal) [2017-08-02T15:46:21+02:00] view original

  cint is compiler-dependent; it's just that no target that we care about uses a different size.

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• scriptkiddy (orginal) [2017-08-03T18:12:43+02:00] view original

  I believe the docs also mention that cint is not a C compatible integer type specifically. It is just a compatible integer type. Meaning, it's implementation is not specific to C. It is supposed to be compatible with all common targets.

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