Re: [AD] Windows/Mac joystick hotplugging patch

[Michał Cichoń <thedmd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 On 2010-08-19 18:17, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> Before I go on and do Linux (unless someone else volunteers :P),
> I'd like to get some feedback on this patch. It works on Mac now too.
> I still didn't add the functions to get proper names or unique ids for
> joysticks. What I'm mainly interested in is your thoughts on using
> intptr_t ids instead of ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK * pointers. The ids
> actually are ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK * pointers, but the user doesn't
> have to know that. The external API uses intptr_t while internally
> it just casts to ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK * so I didn't have to do _too_
> much work.

I think it is better to keep ALLEGRO_JOYSTICK* as an ID. This will be 
consistent with the rest of the Allegro. Introducing raw intptr_t makes 
people wonder 'why it is so special?'.