On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 17:17 +0530, Vikraman Choudhury wrote: > Why and when should I use gint, gchar instead of int, char ?
mostly, 'because they look "integerated" with the rest of the types' and 'only when you want to'. that also holds true for gfloat and gdouble. guint and guchar can save you from typing unsigned int and unsigned char, so there's that. otherwise there's no actual reason, apart from the "stylistic" one, for which you should be using gint, gchar, gfloat and gdouble: they are always typedef'd to int, char, float and double respectively. other types, like gint8/16/32/64, goffset, gsize/gssize, etc. are useful for portability purposes. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
