[Issue 2364] New: ftell return type is long in C, that is 64-bit on x86-64

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:52:13 +0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> downs wrote:
>> d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2364
>>>
>>>            Summary: ftell return type is long in C, that is 64-bit on  
>>> x86-64
>>>            Product: D
>>>            Version: 2.019
>>>           Platform: PC
>>>                URL:  
>>> http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_c_stdio.html#fte
>>>                     ll
>>>         OS/Version: Windows
>>>             Status: NEW
>>>           Severity: trivial
>>>           Priority: P2
>>>          Component: Phobos
>>>         AssignedTo: bugzilla at digitalmars.com
>>>         ReportedBy: terranium at yandex.ru
>>>
>>>
>>> But in D it's declared as int ftell(FILE *);
>>>
>>>
>>  So .. ptrdiff_t?
>
> Nope, C long.  So 32 bits on Win32, Win64, and 32-bit *nix, but 64 bits  
> on 64-bit *nix.

Isn't it compiler specific? I.e. DMD declares C long as D int no matter  
what.
But I agree that it should return long (on 32-bit OS, too).