I've decided to do that where possible based on your suggestion. But it can't work if the data direction is from C to Perl (return value of a C function, @_ value coming into a Perl callback from C). If a programmer is very lazy, and very smart, he can avoid turning on Math::Int64 support explicitly and just pass MI64 Objs and get away with it in some careful places.

The other idea in this thread some people said, I think was to totally remove Quads on 32 bit Perls as 8 byte SV PV string support and if you say Quad on 32 bit Perl, you've said Math::Int64, no exceptions. 8 byte SV PV string support is not portable at all currently. On x64 the 8 byte packed int64 as a scalar string will become garbage to the C function. If you really want 64 bit ints as 8 byte strings, you can type pun it to a "char *" and remember to pad it out at your own risk. Any opinions on removing int 64s as 8 byte strings on 32 bit Perl feature and tell the user to C type pun to char * if they dont want to use Math::Int64?

In reply to Re^6: RFC: Win32::API API (names) by bulk88
in thread RFC: Win32::API API by bulk88

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