From: "Fran Litterio" <flitterio@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, 722@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
don@donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#722: More Visual Studio 6.0 compiler errors on Windows XP
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:39:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5b589a70808150939t292364c2peac97dfd476d383b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4p5mfe1p.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli wrote:
> From: Francis Litterio
> Emacs has always compiled using VC++ 6.0 in the past, so some change
> > must have introduced this problem.
>
> The problems in w32.c are due to a recent change I did to impement two
> new primitives, but the change in dired.c that made st_size be
> unsigned 64-bit type is fairly old. When did you last build the CVS
> code?
>
Some timestamp sleuthing leads me to believe it was Jan 19th, 2008.
> Also, a 64-bit integer (signed or unsigned) cannot safely be cast to
> > double without loss of data.
>
> Yes, when file sizes will start hitting 64-bits, we will start losing
> precision here. But I hope till then all compilers will have long
> double data type, and then this code could be fixed.
Good point!
--
Fran
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 21:11 bug#722: More Visual Studio 6.0 compiler errors on Windows XP Francis Litterio
2008-08-15 9:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-15 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16775.1218793661.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15 13:35 ` Francis Litterio
2008-08-15 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-15 16:39 ` Fran Litterio [this message]
2008-08-15 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16795.1218804458.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15 14:20 ` Francis Litterio
2008-08-15 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-15 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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