Re: M4-converting gsize to std::size_t

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 19:22 +0100, Daniel Boles wrote:
> On 29 May 2017 at 15:32, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 22:11 +0100, Daniel Boles wrote:
> > > There are a few uses of the GLib typedef gsize in glibmm et al.
> > >
> > > I presume it would be safe to provide an M4 conversion from this
> > to
> > > std::size_t? Do you think that would be good? To me, it seems
> > nicer
> > > to use the C++ standard type.
> >
> > Yes, that sounds good. Thanks.
>
>
> Thanks for the confirmation. Does the same apply to other g* types,
> both the generic ones (guchar, guint, etc.) and the specific-width
> ones (guint8 to std::uint8_t, etc.) ?

Personally, I like the brevity of guint compared to unsigned int, or
even std::uint32_t. But I could maybe be persuaded.

Replacing guint8 with std::uint8_t sounds reasonable, though I doubt
there are many of the min the API anyway.

I guess we could replace many of the 'guchar's with std::byte in C++17.

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