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sr #110296: AC_TYPE_PID_T defines pid_t incorrectly on 64-bit MSVC

Submitter:  Bruno Haible <haible>
Submitted:  Sun 23 Aug 2020 11:36:11 PM UTC
   
 
Priority:  * 5 - Unprioritized Severity:  3 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows
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Tue 25 Aug 2020 01:22:44 AM UTC, comment #3: 


> maybe an entry in the NEWS file is appropriate?


I didn't think the patch important enough to mention in NEWS. No big deal either way.

Paul Eggert <eggert>
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Mon 24 Aug 2020 06:28:00 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Sure. I didn't pay attention to this terminology detail.

Also, maybe an entry in the NEWS file is appropriate?

Bruno Haible <haible>
Mon 24 Aug 2020 02:28:58 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks I installed that after changing "Windows" to "Microsoft Windows" in the comments.

Paul Eggert <eggert>
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Sun 23 Aug 2020 11:36:11 PM UTC, original submission:  

On 64-bit native Windows, pid_t has to be a 64-bit type, as explained in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-08/msg00209.html .

With mingw, there is no problem, as mingw defines pid_t correctly.

But on MSVC (and MSVC/clang), the type pid_t is not defined, neither by the standard header files nor by the compiler. The AC_TYPE_PID_T therefore kicks in and defines it. But it defines it incorrectly, namely to 'int', where instead 'long long' or '__int64' is the correct definition. For compatibility with MSVC versions < 14 (older than 2015), it is best to use '__int64', as support for 'long long' was only added in MSVC 14 (Visual Studio 2015).

Patch is attached.

Bruno Haible <haible>

 

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file #49700:  0001-AC_TYPE_PID_T-Define-pid_t-correctly-on-64-bit-nativ.patch added by haible (2KiB - text/x-patch - Proposed patch (nearly identical to code in gnulib that I wrote))

 

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    2020-08-24 eggert StatusNone Done
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    2020-08-23 haible Attached File- Added 0001-AC_TYPE_PID_T-Define-pid_t-correctly-on-64-bit-nativ.patch, #49700

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