C99 types patch

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Oct 22 03:55:32 PDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:49:26PM +0900, Keith Packard wrote:
> Excerpts from Daniel Stone's message of Thu Oct 22 18:23:42 +0900 2009:
> 
> > Right.  Why don't we just ditch CARD32 and move to the native inttypes.h
> > types everywhere but Xlib?
> 
> Do you want to do this for all XID types? Also, I assume you're
> proposing that we drop Cray support from the protocol headers at the
> same time, right?
> 
> My only question is whether we want to retain the existing abstract
> types to make the interfaces a bit more 'self documenting'.

if you're talking about things like KeyButMask, Drawable, Cursor, and the
like then yes, we should definitely keep them.

Cheers,
  Peter


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