Re: [ros-dev] ULONG vs. SIZE_T

[David Johnson]

Please do!!

On 6/5/06, Magnus Olsen <magnus(a)itkonsult-olsen.com> wrote:
>  
>  Hi
>  if u see some thing that should be ULONG instead for SIZE_T please send us
>  a
>  patch
>
>  some of devlopers have stop adding new code and doing bugfix for moment.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Myria" <myriachan(a)cox.net>
>  To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:11 AM
>  Subject: [ros-dev] ULONG vs. SIZE_T
>
>
> >   I've noticed that in the ReactOS source code,
> > there are many places 
>  where
>  a
> >   parameter or structure is ULONG when it should
> > really be SIZE_T.  Using
> >  ULONG instead of SIZE_T is not portable.  It will be difficult to port
> >  ReactOS to x64 and Itanium in the future because of this.
> >
> >  I think the project should stop the bleeding by requiring all new code 
>  to
> >   make proper use of ULONG versus SIZE_T.  This
> > does mean going against 
>  the
> >   documentation of native syscalls on the Internet,
> > but it must be done
> >  sometime.
> >
> >  Of course, I'm not really part of the project...
> >
> >  Melissa
> >
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