RE: [platform-swt-dev] SWT on 64-bit platforms

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christophe_Cornu@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
 > Andrew, JK:
 > We encourage you and other people interested in 64-bit ports to use the 
 > following bugzilla report to discuss the issues and/or solutions you 
 > discover. Hopefully this PR will become a useful starter and follow up for 
 > 64 bit developers.
 > http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27577
 > I have added to that PR the 9/12/2002 thread between Steve and Tom Tromey.

I've read that exchange.  The preferred solution seemed to be

     - use "long" everywhere and be careful to do the correct
casting/pointer math on 32-bit systems

and that's what I propose to do RSN.

Andrew.