| ??? 09/17/07 23:00 Read: times |
#144723 - Shorthand vs. Portability Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I don't think it's so much a matter of shorthand as it is portability. Suppose you are trying to write a portable program that needs, say, a 32-bit integer type. There's nothing in the language to help you there because the size of 'int' can vary from one compler to the next. So you invent your own 'int32' type, and then make whatever typedefs you need for each compiler in order to force 'int32' to be 32 bits wide. That's the theory, anyway, and it might make sense for some gigantic program that you really expect to port from one machine to another.
However, from what I've seen (working mostly with little microcontrollers), there's not really that much code that ever gets reused or ported without quite a bit of monkeying around in the process. As long as that continues to be the case, I'd rather see the built-in types used instead of user-defined types where I have to go consult a header file to find out what it means every time I see a new one. -- Russ |
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