On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "long" is of standard length in WebIDL, for better or for worse (it's 32 >> bits). Since some of our IDLs come from WebIDLs in web specs, or at least >> are based on them, I'm not sure we really want to standardize on stdint.h >> types for all XPIDLs. It depends on whether naming consistency with C++ or >> with WebIDL is more important to us, I guess. > > We should be consistent with WebIDL and specs. Makes it easier to compare > what we have with what's specced.
Using the WebIDL types in our .webidl interfaces makes a lot of sense. However in our .idl files I don't think we'll ever line up particularly well with WebIDL and so we might as well go for clarity there. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
