Re: [AD] unicode.c patch

[Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to Henrik Stokseth (Henrik Stokseth <hstokset@xxxxxxxxxx.
no>):
>i think it would be a good idea to start using the new iso c types. see 
>/usr/include/stdint.h to see what i mean. this way we ensure portability 
>of code as well. allegro makes too much assumptions about the size of 
>int beeing 32bits. on my old borland compiler the size was 16bit. on 
>ia64 it might be 64bit. instead of making a workaround for a cvs version 
>of gcc wouldn't it be a good idea to actually fix this properly once and 
>for all? 

Bearing in mind the other posts on this thread, it seems to me that a
rewrite of Allegro's integer handling could have some small advantages.
I am happy to put the time into this rewrite, if it is deemed useful,
and if somebody tells me what to do :-)

We could, for instance, define a set of types:
 al_uint32, al_sint16, etc.

which would then be defined in a platform-specific way in a platform-
specific header.

Well, let me know if you want me to do anything. Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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