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OCaml's int is not large enough to hold errno values on all platforms (e.g. hurd-i386) #11

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yallop opened this issue Jun 24, 2016 · 2 comments
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OCaml's int is not large enough to hold errno values on all platforms (e.g. hurd-i386) #11

yallop opened this issue Jun 24, 2016 · 2 comments

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yallop commented Jun 24, 2016

See yallop/ocaml-ctypes#409
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dsheets commented Jul 6, 2016

How very... special. Would an int32 work? nativeint? This is annoying...

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yallop commented Jul 7, 2016

Ctypes HEAD has a new sint type that matches the native integer type of the platform.

Using sint means depending on ctypes, unfortunately. However, since errno is a C type, perhaps that's not entirely unreasonable.

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