On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:54:19AM -0700, john heasley wrote:
> Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:28:33PM +0200, Matthias Scheler:
> > But if SUS indeed says that FIONREAD expects an "int" argument you
> > should better write like this:
> > 
> > #if defined(FIONREAD)
> > #ifdef SGIArchitecture
> >    long arg = 0;
> >    ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, (char *) &arg);
> >    return (int) arg;
> > #else
> >    int arg = 0;
> >    ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, &arg);
> >    return arg;
> > #endif
> > #elif defined(__CYGWIN__)
> 
> Does that do it for windows + x86_64?

Since Windows is little-endian, and what's more ILP32 or ILP64 
(not I32LP64) it shouldn't care which version is used.

BTW, you probably should verify that FIONREAD returns a long on
64-bit IRIX and they weren't just getting lucky on 32-bit IRIX.

Eduardo