[FFmpeg-devel] Eliminating long

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:49 +0300, Stephen A wrote:
> There are workarounds, but the fact remains that 'long' hurts  
> interoperability with languages/runtimes that explicitly define 'bitness'  
> (think Python, Ocaml, Haskell); which is the reason why OpenGL, SDL and  

Python has no problems interfacing with C libraries that use type
'long'. I don't know about OCaml and Haskell, but given that you were
wrong about Python and also capitalized OCaml incorrectly you do not
appear as a credible authority on the subject.