[Geany-Devel] Geany using standard types

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Sun Aug 18 13:10:11 UTC 2013


On 13-08-18 12:36 AM, Yosef Or Boczko wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I don't know why it is worthwhile?
> What the advantage of char from gchar?
>

char is a completely standard data type since the beginning of C. Why 
typedef it to some other type (especially when not providing any 
platform independence like whether it's signed or unsigned)?

> gchar is just for readability of the code, so why to change?
>

How is gchar more readable than char?

Cheers,
Matthew Brush


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