ULONG vs. SIZE_T

[Myria]

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

[Magnus Olsen]

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" [e-mail]
To: "ReactOS Development List" [e-mail]
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
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[David Johnson]

Please do!!

On 6/5/06, Magnus Olsen [e-mail] 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" [e-mail]
> To: "ReactOS Development List" [e-mail]
> 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
> >
> > Ros-dev mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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