Re: making sdirno an int8_t

Duane Wessels wrote:

> > I'll look at explicitly changing types from int to int32_t or whatever
> > where appropriate to try and drop the memory footprint a little, but there
> > are far more work that needs to be done. :-)
>
> Remind me again, what was [is] wrong with the old method?

Only that the size of int varies between platforms. Common sizes today
is 32 or 64 bits.

Due to compability reasons it is preferable if the size of the elements
in the swap log isn't changed. However the in-memory structures can use
datatypes of any size suitable.

/Henrik
Received on Tue Aug 01 2000 - 11:06:38 MDT