Re: VS2005 doesn't like its own suggestions

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"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lawrence Groves <lgroves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>> But I think the answer to your original question is that since INT has a
>> fixed size (32 bits) a program can be written in that knowledge and then
>> ported to a different arcitecture. [...]
>
> So why isn't it named 'INT32' or, even better, a
> typedef named 'int32_t', instead of that macro!

Because hindsight is a wonderful thing. If we (eg, the programmers that
inverted all those Microsoft symbols) got things right the first time it
would be a wonderful world, if not a little boring from a programming point
of view :-)

Loz.


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