Add 'long long' to types supported by NCI

[japhb]

This is a migration of RT #53406; original request as follows:

At least MySQL and OpenGL have function prototypes either taking or returning C<long long> or C<unsigned long long>. There is no way to correctly handle this with Parrot's NCI signature types. Currently both MySQL and OpenGL are just substituting C<long> instead, which will work on 64-bit architectures, but fail miserably on 32-bit arches.

(I wish we could just insist that INTVAL be 64 bits everywhere, but alas that doesn't make a lot of sense for very memory-constrained environments. Though those do get rarer by the day ....)

[jkeenan]

When I hear NCI, I think: plobsing. Peter, cc-ing you to see if you have any comments or recommendations.

Thank you very much.

kid51

[plobsing]

This is a longstanding known issue.

Slots for supporting 'long long', 'long double', and explicitly-sized 64-bit types was in the recently-merged ptrbuf branch, which improves the native struct interface and are planned for changes to bring the native call interface in line with the former.

All of this is, of course, conditional on th C system implementing these. It doesn't make sense for a C-compatibility layer to provide types that the system's C does not support. To make use of these slots, we'll need configure-probes which currently do not exist.

[jkeenan]

Possible locations to conduct such probes, as inferred from the output of find ./config | xargs grep -l 'long long':

./config/auto/cpu.pm
./config/auto/format.pm
./config/auto/sizes.pm

[plobsing]

Replying to jkeenan:

Possible locations to conduct such probes, as inferred from the output of find ./config | xargs grep -l 'long long': {{{ ./config/auto/cpu.pm ./config/auto/format.pm ./config/auto/sizes.pm }}}

These probes have been added to auto::sizes and their results are being used by StructView. NCI will follow in some future update.

[plobsing]

long long, long double, and sized integer types have been added to NCI in c7e27f5