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

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not saying to use OpenGL datatypes, but define new Allegro  
> datatypes.
> As example, AL_INT32, AL_UINT32, AL_INT64, AL_FLOAT, AL_CHAR, etc.

What's the point?
There's standard C99 datatypes, int32_t, int16_t etc. Why not use those?

> It
> would be useful specially for those integer with an specific  
> length.  By the
> way, I'm not sure if the C99 standard defines those "specific  
> length types"

Yes, it does.

> and if they're widely used by all platforms.

Maybe not, but if they're not, Allegro already provides them (or at  
least used to, but I'm guessing that's a feature we keep).

Evert