[MPlayer-dev-eng] (yet) another batch of compiler warning fixes

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Jul 14 05:43:58 CEST 2002


On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:01, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:18:52PM +0200, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Saturday, 13 July 2002, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > Please use my recommended way and replace those ulong by unsigned long
> > > all over that file and remove the typedef, IMHO there is no sense of
> > > using such non-standard shortcuts.
> >
> > I don't know about it being non-standard. After all it's defined in
> > <sys/types.h> on at least some platforms. I'd sooner say that cygwin
> > is non-standard.
>
> IMO, regardless, it's dumb. Using types from sys/types.h makes sense
> for getting system specific fixed-size integer types, say a 32bit
> integer. However, using something like ulong that's identical to
> unsigned long is just gratuitous abbreviation -- and if it has a
> chance of breaking on some systems, it's nonsense and should be
> removed.
agree.

> Rich

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        Atmos
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