uintptr_t is not defined under MS VC++ 6

>typedef unsigned long intptr_t;
>typedef unsigned int* uintptr_t; // added by monday2000

intptr_t is supposed to be a signed integer type, uintptr_t an unsigned
integer type. So in fact both of these definitions are incorrect.

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Jakub Wilk

> So in fact both of these definitions are incorrect.

Correct or not - who cares? Without my patch the whole code can NOT be compiled under MS VC++ 6.0. With the patch - everything is compiled OK.

Who cares whether is compiles with a deprecated, outdated and unsupported compiler, whereas newer and arguably better compilers from Microsoft are available for free and do compile the code correctly?

As for the types, I would define them as

   typedef signed int intptr_t;
   typedef unsigned int uintptr_t;

for a 32-bit platform (the only target that MSVC supports), but probably Jussi could consider using something along the lines of

http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/

since Microsoft is still unable to get it right. At least, this crap will be localized somewhere and could be potentially less of a PITA to maintain.