[AGENT++] 64-bit system support, 64-bit unsigned long?

[Jochen Katz]

Hello,

snmp++ and agent++ are aware of different sizes for (unsigned) long
type, so there is no need to change any types in the libraries. On my 64
bit Linux system, long also has 64 bit size.

Regards,
  Jochen


Am 17.02.2010 21:32, schrieb Xochitl Lunde:
> I thought that I previously saw some 64-bit changes in one of the Agent 
> suite change logs.  What 64-bit systems are supported?
> 
> I am asking because I ran into a problem with our application that uses 
> Agent plus plus.  On 64-bit Mac OS, unsigned long types are treated as 
> 64-bits, whereas on 64-bit Windows, they are treated as 32-bits.  My Agent 
> ++ libraries build like a charm in 64-bit Intel Mac OS, and even seem to 
> be functional without changing the unsigned longs to uint32_t.  Are the 
> unsigned longs intended to accept a 64-bit long?
> 
> I am in the middle of converting all of our software unsigned long 
> declarations to uint32_t declarations.  (We do a lot of processing with a 
> 32-bit boundary binary data file, so I have to change many of our data 
> types.) However, there are places in the Agent API that accept unsigned 
> long data types, so then I have a conversion problem, because I know those 
> are 64-bit types the way that I compiled the Agent ++.
> 
> To get an idea for my project risk, do you forsee a need for me to convert 
> any types in Agent ++ if the platform's unsigned long is 64-bit?
> 
> Thanks,
> XO