0001004: cPar does not have functions for converting to "long long" type

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0001004

OMNeT++

simulation kernel

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2017-03-30 15:20

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rhornig

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normal

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minor

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have not tried

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new

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5.1

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Summary

0001004: cPar does not have functions for converting to "long long" type

Description

This issues surfaced within INET where something like

bitrate = bps(par("bitrate"));

was used and the compiler complained about ambiguous conversion on Windows!. This is happening because bitrate is defined as int64_t which is defined as "long long" on 64-bit Windows. This leads to the ambiguity as no direct conversion function is defined for long long.

This leads to a more deeper problem as ned parameters are either long,string or bool and we don't now big is the 'long' type in NED? Is it 32-bit, or 64-bit? It's definitely not good to leave it as implementation dependent. This leads to the next step, that we should probably use int8_t, inet16_t,inet32_t and int64_t in cPar insetad of using the implementation dependent types (char,short,int,long, long long)

Steps To Reproduce

use something like

bps(par("name"))

in a model on Windows 64-bit.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-03-30 15:20	rhornig	New Issue

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