Something is wrong with JNI's jlong in JDK7 (original) (raw)

Scott Palmer swpalmer at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 08:21:32 PST 2012


I just noticed that the criteria for defining jlong has changed from that given in Apple's JDK 6 vs. Oracle's JDK 7. This caused some code of mine to break because it seems to be wrong under some circumstances.

JDK 7u10 has this. Note that sometimes a jlong is a C "long" and sometimes it is a C "long long":

#ifndef JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H #define JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H

#define JNIEXPORT #define JNIIMPORT #define JNICALL

typedef int jint; #ifdef _LP64 /* 64-bit Solaris */ typedef long jlong; #else typedef long long jlong; #endif

typedef signed char jbyte;

#endif /* !JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H */

Whereas Apple's JDK 6 always uses "long long":

#ifndef JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H #define JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H

#define JNIEXPORT attribute((visibility("default"))) #define JNIIMPORT #define JNICALL

#if defined(LP64) && LP64 /* for -Wundef */ typedef int jint; #else typedef long jint; #endif typedef long long jlong; typedef signed char jbyte;

#endif /* !JAVASOFT_JNI_MD_H */



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