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recently, i received a bug-report for the "puredata" Debian-package, that warned of conflicting declarations of the glist_scalar() function.
the problem seems to be, that glist_scalar() uses "int argc" for it's A_GIMME argument in the declaration in g_canvas.c, but uses "t_int argc" in the function definition in g_scalar.c. now "t_int" is defined as a "pointer-sized integer", which is a "long int" on amd64, thus incompatible with the 32bit "int".
it is often tempting to use "t_int" whenever possible, as it is the Pd-native integer type. unfortunately this can (and will) break binary compatibility in some cases.
i think it should be *well documented* which types to use. e.g. the only way to find out how to use A_GIMME is reading the source code (where we have at least 4 occurences that use "t_int" (glist_scalar(), curve_new(), plot_new() and drawnumber_new()) and a lot more (>200) uses of "int".
also t_listmethod and t_anymethod in m_imp.h seem to suggest that "int" is the correct type (though "m_imp.h" was historically considered a "private" header, not meant for documentation).
i think it's necessary to fix all uses of "t_int argc" to "int argc".
additionally i think it would be good to: - - clearly document the function-signature for (A_GIMME) callbacks (and while doing so, move the various callback-typedefs from m_imp.h to m_pd.h)
- - split the generic "t_int" type into multiple names, that suggest their usage. afaict, the original use of "t_int" is for the dsp process function (t_perfroutine) , though the name does not suggest anything like this. probably we should move to a new (probably even more pointer-like) type typedef t_perfarg void*; and replace all other uses of t_int (e.g. the return value of "atom_getint()" or the struct-member "t_resample.upsample") by other types, e.g. "int", for compatibility reasons, we might need to keep the two (or more) types the same size, but they should be separated on a semantic level.
msdr IOhannes
PS: it's pure coincidence that we had this recent conversation on pd-list, where argc was declared "short".
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750168