[GCC-XML] Have GCCXML judge pointers to be 64-bit

[Tony]

Ok, I'll take a look at the parser code and if that's too hairly I'll
put in a conversion pass in my interpreter.

Thanks for the quick response!

// tony



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Tony wrote:
>> So I'm finally migrating some of my work to 64-bit, and I found that
>> all PointerType's in GCCXML are 32-bit with my naiive settings.
>>
>> How can I get them to be size="64"? and of course respect the other
>> usual suspects such as size_t?
>
> Note that gccxml is meant to document the API, not the ABI.
> The size attributes are just there because they were easy.
> While we can simulate the preprocessor of another compiler,
> we do not mirror its target architecture or ABI at all.
>
> You might be able to build gccxml's internal GCC 4.2 parser
> to target a 64-bit platform.  That's the only way AFAIK.
>
> -Brad
>