[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform

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From: <RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform


> Since discussion on this point seems to have wound down, I'll take a stab
at
> summarizing:
>
> 1. What processors (or processor architectures) are to be supported?
>
> The API should fully support 64 bit processors, and either be portable to
> such processors or explicitly utilize 64 types where possible.  Also,
> standard ANSI C type names should be used instead of platform-specific
type
> names such as DWORD.

I have a sugestion that we use a naming system where the bit size is
appended to the type. I cant remember where i got this from but it avoids
any ambiguity with differant type names in diferant languages. You just
typedef these in the SDK.

int8, int16, int32, int64

uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64

float32, float64, float80

bool8, bool16, bool32,

i also think it should be explicitly defined what true and false are in
regard to booleans because some languages true and false are 0 and 1, and in
others they are ==0 and <>0. This would probably be better aligned with the
C standard? For example in Delphi the default boolean is 0 and 1 so anything
<> 1 is false.

chris


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