Re^3: Perl XS portable uint32

The example you provided doesn't match what I'm finding with my 64-bit Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 compiler on Vista 64. This compiler has 32-bit longs and ints - yet those high order bits are, I think, being lost to the "big bit bucket in the sky":

use warnings;
use Inline C => Config =>
    BUILD_NOISY => 1;

use Inline C => <<'EOC';

void foo() {
     unsigned long x = 0xffffffff;
     printf("long: %d\nint: %d\n", sizeof(long), sizeof(int));
     printf("%x\n", x);
     x  <<= 2;
     printf("%x\n", x);
     x >>= 2;
     printf("%x\n", x);
}


EOC

foo();

__END__
Outputs:
long: 4
int: 4
ffffffff
fffffffc
3fffffff
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Maybe this behaviour is not reliable across the full range of compilers/systems/architectures. (I honestly wouldn't know.)

Unfortunately you can't use sizeof in a preprocessor directive to do the setup one way on a 32 bit machine and another way on a 64 bit one

Yes - I was finding that out for myself (probably as you were writing your reply :-)

However, you can have the Makefile.PL query $Config{intsize} and $Config{longsize}. And the Makefile.PL can then define symbols (based on those config values) that the pre-processor can make use of.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^4: Perl XS portable uint32_t by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on Jun 06, 2008 at 15:30 UTC
Ah this just demonstrates the bit loss. Here is an example using 2 different width ints: use Inline C => <<'EOC'; void poo () { unsigned short s = 0xffff; unsigned long l = (unsigned long) s; printf("short %08x\n long %08x\n", sizeof(s), sizeof(l)); printf("short %08x\n long %08x\n", s, l); s <<= 4; l <<= 4; printf("short %08x\n long %08x\n", s, l); s >>= 4; l >>= 4; printf("short %08x\n long %08x\n", s, l); if ( l != (unsigned long) s ) printf("Bugger!\nerror %08x\n", l^(unsigned long)s ); } EOC poo(); __END__ short 00000002 long 00000004 short 0000ffff long 0000ffff short 0000fff0 long 000ffff0 short 00000fff long 0000ffff Bugger! error 0000f000 [download] This is exactly what happens if you think you have a 32 bit int but actually have a 64 bit int. 2 operations and the results now differ.....	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Perl XS portable uint32_t by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 06, 2008 at 22:30 UTC
This is exactly what happens if you think you have a 32 bit int but actually have a 64 bit int Yes - which demonstrates that you need to know what you have. I'm in agreement with that - and have been right from the beginning. It's just that I don't see a need to establish anything other than that wrt Digest::JHash. And, given that that info can easily be derived by (or passed to) the pre-processor, you can tailor jhash() to efficiently deal with any scenario. But maybe I'm being blind to certain issues ... so I'll just butt out. I look forward to the next release of Digest::JHash, where I get to see how you eventually do deal with the issue :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]


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