[vbox-dev] should RTFILE be unint64_t on Amd 64?

[Knut St. Osmundsen]

Huihong Luo wrote:
> otherwise, it does not work under windows 7 kernel mode, since it uses
> 64-bit for file handles, eg.,
>  
> 0xFFFFFFFF 080002BC
>  
> after i change RTFILE to uint64_t, then works.
>  
> Wonder if make sense to alway make the change for 64-bit systems.

HANDLE is IIRC a PVOID on Windows, so it does make sense to change
RTFILE to a HCUINTPTR sized type. I've created an internal task for
implementing this.

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