[GRASS-dev] r38992 Vect_get_num return long

[Markus Metz]

AFAIKT, r38992 Vect_get_num return long has no effect because the number 
of features (for each type) is stored as plus_t which is int. If you 
want to prepare the vector libs to support more than INT_MAX objects, I 
would suggest to use

plus_t Vect_get_num_primitives(const struct Map_info *, int);

etc and then think about what type is appropriate for plus_t.

I would suggest *not* to use long because long is the same like int on 
32 bit (4 bytes) and the same like long long int on 64 bit (8 bytes), 
i.e. a vector written with 64 bit may not be readable with 32 bit which 
is against all the efforts to keep the vector format independent of 
platform/architecture/compiler. Some unsigned integer type should work, 
else some checks would be needed similar to what Glynn recently 
implemented to get an integer type of size 8 in port_init.c. E.g. use 
long if possible else use long long if possible else fatal error, no 
integer of size 8 available (or is there something else that could have 
a size of 8 ?).

Markus M