[Live-devel] 64 bit portability

[Ross Finlayson]

>I have successfully compiled Live555 media library on Windows using 
>VS2005. My question is as follows: Is the Live555 media library 
>fully 64 bit compatible? I am asking because the VS 2005 compiler 
>detects a lot of 64 bit portability issues and presents them as 
>warnings. Also, if you look into the code, you will find a lot of 
>lines with type casts between pointers and 32-bit ints or vice 
>versa. This can be (not necessarily) dangerous when running the 
>library on a 64 bit platform. Does anybody know more about the 64 
>bit portability?

The code is intended to be portable to 64-bit systems, and several 
other people have compiled and run the code on 64-bit systems (though 
I haven't yet done this myself).

If you (or anyone else) discovers any 64-bit problems with the code, 
please let us know.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/