To quote Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > I think in principle glib may be a good idea, but it is overdone.
I think I disagree. Look down the road five or ten years. Maybe at that point, there will be a good reason for gint to be different from the standard C int, but yet backwards-compatible with older gints. So you're right - there's no reason for it now. But as it stands, glib has a lot less inertia than glibc; there's a lot less pressure to keep things the same for long periods of time. So I think they were right to go for completeness, and leave it open-ended. Better to build one ten-lane highway than build five two-lane highways(for lots of reasons, and the analogy holds). David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
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