Hi, On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:48:21PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > If, for some weird reason, you absolutely must have a signed 8-bit > arithmetic type, the proper type is 'int8_t' (found in 'stdint.h'[1]). > Not char. Not signed char[2]. I agree, but I'm willing to bet that assuming sizeof(char) is 1 is more portable today than assuming stdint.h is available. But the point is: if a particular size or signedness is required for a variable, then its type name should make that clear. A gchar is about as undescriptive as you can get; uint8 would have been so much better. Glib could perfectly have used autoconf to sort out how to define or typedef a [u]int{8,16,32,ptr,64} using the standard C types on a certain platform if it really needed them. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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