Suggestions

[Ainsley Pereira]

In message <iQGB8EAQxCC5EwJr at mk-net.demon.co.uk> you wrote:

> In the RISC OS environment, the 'bug' actually only exists under G++.
> Neither C nor CFront define bool at all. How come G++ doesn't spot the
> mis-use of the bool keyword in types.h?

It does. So far I'd just #ifdef'd it out myself, and -by luck- not
actually used anything that passed a bool around.

> Next, should we change, as Jonathan suggested, |bits| and |byte| for
> consistency? Again I'd be inclined to leave them alone; they are oslib-
> specific anyway, and presently don't present a problem.

Then we'd have osbyte. That'd certainly confuse me, what with the
os_byte SWI, and me being simple an' all :-) Besides, everything I've
ever seen that defines a byte type defines it as 8 bits, so it's not
drastically incompatible like bool was.

~A.

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