Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!

[Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>]

this is just a sample, but there were other likely candidates:

./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr count;
./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr count; // tick count
./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr evicts; // eviction count
./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr lost; // lost ticks that need to be logged
./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr totallost; // total lost ticks
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr allocs;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr frees;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr alloc_bytes;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr free_bytes;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr recent_allocs;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr recent_frees;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr recent_alloc_bytes;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr recent_free_bytes;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr hash;
./src/pkg/runtime/zmprof_386.c:uintptr nstk;
./src/pkg/runtime/runtime.h: uintptr n; // number of parameters
./src/pkg/runtime/thread_netbsd.c: uintptr nout;
./src/pkg/runtime/cpuprof.c: uintptr nlog;


On 22 November 2012 12:39, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
> Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> once said:
>> On 22 November 2012 03:44, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > uintptr in all over the go packages because it is right.
>>
>> I hadn't noticed that particularly, but having grep'd the source, I
>> see it's also used for variables that are counters and numbers of
>> things.
>
> Can you give an example? Nothing jumped out after a quick glance.
>
>> Is that right too? I suspect it's more out of expediency. Some other
>> type usage looks odd too. int32 where int would do. Curious.
>
> Such as? The only one I can think of is (*os.File).Fd returning
> a uintptr but that was changed from int for a reason (Windows).
>
> Cheers,
>   Anthony
>
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