[Cuis-dev] VectorEnginePlugin (was Re: UK Smalltalk User Group meeting - Wednesday March 31st)

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Mar 26 09:38:22 PDT 2021


On 3/25/2021 4:56 PM, David T. Lewis via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hello Juan,
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:40:22PM -0300, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Please note that I included a change set for VMMaker to declare
>> WordArray and Bitmap as uint32_t* (and not unsigned*), and IntegerArray
>> as int32_t* (and not int*). I know that Windows / MacOS / Linux treat
>> int and unsigned as 32 bit, but I think it is good practice to adopt
>> explicit stdint.h types. After all, they have been part of the C
>> standard for over 20 years!
>>
> I'm sorry, I overlooked the IntegerArrayWordArray-stdint-VMMaker-jmv.006.cs.st
> change set. I will give that a try and report back later.
>
> Dave

As you saw, VectorEnginePlugin workd OK without the changes to VMMaker 
to use stdint. So, I also removed them from my own builds.

Then, this is a suggestion for VMMaker, and is really unrelated to 
VectorGraphics.

Thanks,

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