Will there be a "color" Palm VII this year?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:21 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Palm OS 3.5 Types




You don't use "short", "long", etc., because their size is
compiler-dependent.
When you're writing to an API like the Palm OS which is fairly fixed, you
want
to make double-dog sure that you're passing in values of the right length.

You don't use "char*", etc., because that's ASCII-dependent. With different
kinds of character encodings out there, you'd like something like "Char" so
that
you can change just that when retargetting your application.

-- Keith





Dan Hewins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/01/2000 04:02:20 PM

Please respond to "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:  Dan Hewins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:   "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc:    (Keith Rollin/HQ/3Com)
Subject:  Palm OS 3.5 Types




Forgive me if this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it
in all of my emails.

What's the point of introducing these new types anyway?  Why not just
use short, long, unsigned char, char*, etc?  Is there a reason for
all of this?

Thanks,
Dan Hewins
Synergy Solutions, Inc.

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