Re: Upcoming GtkTypeFundemental change

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Daniel Egger <degger fhm edu> writes:

> Am Sam, 2002-08-10 um 19.06 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> 
> > That was suggested in the bugzilla mail; G_MAXLONG would be
> > an appropriate, non-fancy define. But it strikes me as
> > overengineering, and has some risk of revealing compiler oddities.
> 
> Hm, ok.
>  
> > I'm not worried about the ugliness ... it's only deprecated compat
> > stuff, and the non-deprecated stuff in GLib is even uglier
> > (by necessity.)
> 
> Why not simply let it remain broken?

Because (see the bugzilla entry) the way it is currently just doesn't
work at all on some platforms.

Regards,
                                        Owen