[GHC] #11502: Scrutinize use of 'long' in rts/

27 Jan 2016


      #11502: Scrutinize use of 'long' in rts/
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           Reporter:  thomie         |             Owner:
               Type:  task           |            Status:  new
           Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:
          Component:  Runtime        |           Version:  7.10.3
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 In commit 53055bb5023e8cc145ad8a9cd36ac56cee4695b0 (#5656), several uses
 of `int` in the rts were replaced by `long`, to avoid potential overflows
 for some calculations. On Windows though, `int` and `long` have the same
 size (4 bytes).

 Carefully go through all uses of `long` in `rts/`, and replace by one of
 the types from `includes/stg/Types.h`:

 * `long` -> `StgInt` or `StgInt64`
 * `unsigned long` -> `StgWord` or `StgWord64`

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