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> I ran into a fustercluck trying to get tcl to run on amd64.

Can you be more specific? What failed?

> Turns out it is due to APE ptrdiff_t being defined as long and not long 
> long (which it is on *nix).
> 
> What is the correct definition of ptrdiff_t on amd64?

The definition should be a vlong, since that's what subtracting
two pointers yields. If you want to submit a patch, the system
dependent location for this is:

	/$objtype/include/ape/stdint.h