Re: [gtk-list] Re: [ron@microtronics.com.au (Ron)] gtk1.2.7 can break apps written for 1.2.6

[Drazen Kacar <dave srce hr>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Drazen Kacar <dave@srce.hr> writes: 
> > gint8 is a typedef for something which depends on the environment. In my
> > case it's typedef for signed char, while gchar is typedef for char. Even
> > in C, char and signed char are distinct types, so compilers will not grok
> > the mix in function prototypes (some might, though).
> 
> That could break the compilation of GTK itself if gdk_gc_set_dashes
> was prototyped and defined differently, but would it ever cause more
> than a warning while compiling another app? ("conversion from signed
> to unsigned")?

It shouldn't in C, but here we have C++ wrapper for GTK. I'm not familiar
enough with C++ to claim that the change breaks something, but I wouldn't
be surprised.

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