[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH: gint/gpointer casting in GTK+ client

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:

> Note that in some places int is used instead of gint.

This is true.

> I know this because I changed this for the cid stuff. It may turn out
> that this cause problems.

        Possibly... in future. However, on all platforms that I have
access to, "gint" is typedef'd to be identical to "int". If they ever
change this, we should hopefully be alerted by compiler warnings when it
tries to convert "gint" (from GPOINTER_TO_INT) to "int". I still feel this
is better than the current situation, where the presence of an explicit
cast (rather than the machine-dependent macro) could hide such a
(potential) warning.

        Ben
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