Re: NSControls failing to set status/label on BigEndian/64bit

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Richard,

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> Changing the type of the masks from NSInteger to uint32_t would also fix the 
> encoding/decoding of course.  Maybe that has other issues though.

perhaps we should try a mixed approach: encode/decode in the format with 
uint32_t and int32_t, but then always cast to NSUInteger/NSInteger. That 
way we have that data "Fixed" as 32bits in the Gorm file from whatever 
platform we write into, but then cast/convert it to whatever we need.

A big doubt I have always is about typdefs, if they are signed or not, 
since I think to remember this is architecture/compiler dependent. I 
tried to leave that out to the compiler for now.

I just finished a first proposal, what do you think?

The keyed path has two bFlags, which I think and I am worried about the 
code where buttonCellFlags are copied with a memcpy.. of which size? it 
needs to be of uint32_t to fit in memory, but is it?.. later is copied 
back with the struct size. Scary.

Riccardo