Re: [AD] Allegro 5 (4.9) data type

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Aug 2008, at 12:01, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez wrote:
> I've seen that Allegro 4.9 uses the standard C data types. Did you
> discuss about to redefine them as OpenGL does? You know, GLint,
> GLuint, GLbyte, etc. I know it would be a nightmare to change all
> declarations for all functions and structs, but I think the benefits
> would be greater, specially to port the library between different
> platforms (there are versions for the GP2X and Nintendo game consoles)
> and languages. Also the most important and powerful cross-platform
> libraries (OpenGL, GTK+, SDL...) do this so it must be discussed.

My opinion: Allegro is not a wrapper around OpenGL, so using OpenGL  
datatypes throughout Allegro doesn't make sense. Standard C (C99)  
datatypes, however, does make sense and is not more or less portable  
than using OpenGL datatypes.

Evert