From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11386 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2007 14:48:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 11375 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Dec 2007 14:48:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ms-smtp-05.nyroc.rr.com (HELO ms-smtp-05.nyroc.rr.com) (24.24.2.59) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:47:58 +0000 Received: from foreman (cpe-66-24-224-82.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.224.82]) by ms-smtp-05.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBEEltn6012305 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:47:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Dennis Foreman" To: References: <57a6149b0712140110o229cf003h196271eaeb8b7c76@mail.gmail.com> <35737E0536AA3D4BA26F10F103C8ABF807964975@nhc0ex13.goodrich.root.local> Subject: RE: error C2678 and C2440 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: <002501c83e60$4f83a830$0201a8c0@foreman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <35737E0536AA3D4BA26F10F103C8ABF807964975@nhc0ex13.goodrich.root.local> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 Seems to me that, ever since people started ballyhooing the "beauties" of C, because of its "typing", those same people have been finding ways to "get around" that very same typing, by either "assuming" that something is an int or by using casting. Let's not blame this structure on "windows". The beautiful thing about typing is that it allows you to port an application to ANY platform, without having to worry about the underlying real type. And what is an "int"? Depends on the architecture (32 vs. 64 bits) and the compiler that generates the code. Regards, DJ Foreman