Re: fun project!

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Nils Barth wrote:

> Also, why is gboolean a gint? and not, say, a guchar?

uhm, i don#t feel like diging up the relevant flamewars for you ;)
to make it short:

Thu May 14 04:14:12 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib.h: typedef gint gboolean;
        this is needed to provide portability with big-endian platforms (e.g.
        try sizeof(bool) for c++ on big-endians - it's 4).
        this is also needed to maintain some_union.d_gint==some_union.d_gboolean.
        plus, gint to gboolean casts and vice versa need to be possible without
        loss.


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ciaoTJ