Re: Moving to pointer-sized GType?

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> The change will be fully source compatible for code that correctly uses 
> GType, but unfortunately there are some places in our codebases that use 
> uint instead of GType/GtkType to store/handle types, and these will break 
> on 64bit architectures (warning + segfault), but silently work on 32bit 
> architectures.

Adding more ways for the teeming 32bit-only hordes to unwittingly break
things for 64bit architectures seems bad. Couldn't you just make GType
be a gpointer and use GPOINTER_TO_UINT or whatever in the few places
where you want to think of them as integers? (Which would only be inside
the type system itself, right?)

-- Dan