[swift-evolution] [Draft] Introducing Build Configuration Tests for Platform Conditions

[Shawn Erickson]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:51 AM William Dillon <william at housedillon.com>
wrote:

> The vast majority of special cases I’ve seen and written are due to the
> size of Int, not a pointer per se.  To clear up the confusion, how about we
> rename bitwidth to intwidth or intsize?
>
> - Will
>
> > On Mar 15, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Shawn Erickson via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> > I guess the fuzziness in my mind is when considering LP64, LLP64, etc. I
> believe swift attempts to avoid that by defining either 32 bit or 64 bit
> model. If that is universally the case then I think bitwidth is fine. If
> not then pointerwidth may be more correct. Those bridging to C would have
> to consider information from the C world to deal with the variations of
> type size based on platform and 32/64.
>

I am curious to see some examples of checking Int size to better understand
the situation.

-Shawn
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