Re: GType typedef API/ABI break.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 10:40 +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> 
> > What does %zu do? What bug does this solve?
> 
> printf-ing a GType. so far, the "correct" way to print it would
> have been to use %lu if GLIB_SIZEOF_LONG == GLIB_SIZEOF_SIZE_T,
> and %zu (prints size_t) otherwise, allthough sizeof (GType) is
> guaranteed to always match sizeof (size_t) (not neccessarily
> sizeof (long)). 

This doesn't seem worth the risk. printfing a GType as a number isn't
very useful or common, and people are used to typedefs having different
definitions on different platforms.

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