flac dev - Feb 2016 - question about src/test_seeking.c - seek_barrage()

seek_barrage() has variable n of type long int (which is 32bit usually).
Then we see something like

    n = (long int)total_samples;

So, why n has type long int, and not FLAC__int64 or some other 64-bit type?

lvqcl wrote:
> seek_barrage() has variable n of type long int (which is 32bit usually).
Thats true on Windows, but on both 32 and 64 bit linux sizeof (long int)
is 8.
> Then we see something like
> 
>     n = (long int)total_samples;
> 
> So, why n has type long int, and not FLAC__int64 or some other 64-bit type?
If I was writing FLAC from scratch now, I would not define any of these
FLAC_intXX types and just use the standard <stdint.h> types.

Since this `n` variable is not part of the public API, I would use int64_t.

Erik
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Agreed.

Although there wasn't a universal standard when FLAC was started, it sure
seems like int64_t and related types are available on all systems these days.
Either FLAC__intXX or intXX_t are better than the old types, like byte, word,
dword, quadword, or whatever.

Brian


On Jan 31, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
wrote:
> If I was writing FLAC from scratch now, I would not define any of these
> FLAC_intXX types and just use the standard <stdint.h> types.
> 
> Since this `n` variable is not part of the public API, I would use int64_t.
> 
> Erik